Emotional influences on perception in artificial agents

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Baillie-de Byl, Penny. 2003. "Emotional influences on perception in artificial agents." Informatica: journal of computing and informatics. 27 (2), pp. 127-135.
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Emotional influences on perception in artificial agents

ERA Journal ID32024
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AuthorBaillie-de Byl, Penny
Journal TitleInformatica: journal of computing and informatics
Journal Citation27 (2), pp. 127-135
Number of Pages9
Year2003
Place of PublicationLjubljana, Slovenia
ISSN0350-5596
1854-3871
Abstract

This paper proposes a model of emotionally influenced perception in an affective agent. Via a multidimensional representation of emotion, a mechanism called the affective space is used to emotionally filter sensed stimuli in the agent's environment. This filtering process allows different emotional states in the agent to create dissimilar emotional reactions when the agent is exposed to the same stimuli. In humans, emotion cannot be a mechanism that enhances intelligence and then isolated from other psychological and physiological functions. As this paper suggests, emotion is an integral part of the human as a biological being and therefore they cannot be turned on and off on a whim. However, this luxury is afforded to the artificial agent. This approach builds on contemporary affective agent architectural concepts as it not only gives an agent the ability to use emotion to produce human-like intelligence, but it also investigates how emotion should affect the agent's other abilities, such as perception

Keywordsaffective computing; agents; decision-making; emotion; perception; artificial intelligence; computational complexity; human engineering
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020520406. Sensory processes, perception and performance
490502. Biostatistics
520105. Psychological methodology, design and analysis
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