Prof. Dr. Dirk Reichardt
KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
Special Issue on Emotion and Computing
What could be emotional about computers and software?What is the link between the two main words in the titleof this issue: Emotion and Computing?
With the growing importance of computer based socialnetworks the linguistic notion of emotion may have a newinterpretation in this context. In fact, the role of emotionin artificial intelligence research still has a different focus.The main fields of emotion research are emotion recognition,emotion modeling and the generation of emotional userinterfaces.
Since AI often likes to refer to the role model “human being”,it seems to be a good idea to have a closer look at therole of emotion in humans, their way of thinking and theirway of acting. Especially the social interactions of humansshow the importance of emotions. An appropriate reactionon a conversational partner seems to be hardly possible withoutthe ability of catching the emotional cues sent out bythe other person in parallel to the spoken words. And, onthe other hand, when trying to convince someone, it’s veryhelpful to add emotional non-verbal signals to the messagesent.
Apart from communication issues, it is generally acceptedthat emotions play a key role in decision makingand learning processes of a human being. Since these subjectshave always been key areas of artificial intelligence research,the importance of emotion in these processes cannotbe ignored...
Dirk M. Reichardt, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz (2011), Springer Verlag, Special Issue on Emotion and Computing, Seite 193–194, Interview Picard Seite 257-259, Interview Gratch Seite 261-264
