E-motion: Moving Toward the Utilization of Artificial Emotion

• Main Authors: Michael A. Gilbert, T.J.M. Bench-Capon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Windsor 2001-01-01
• Series: Informal Logic
• Subjects: artificial intelligence; discourse analysis; emotion; plan recognition; natural language understanding
• Online Access: https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2593

During human-human interaction, emotion plays a vital role in structuring dialogue. Emotional content drives features such as topic shift, lexicalisation change and timing; it affects the delicate balance between goals related to the task at hand and those of social interaction; and it represents one type of feedback on the effect that utterances are having. These various facets are so central to most real-world interaction, that it is reasonable to suppose that emotion should also play an important role in human-computer interaction. To that end, techniques for detecting, modelling, and responding appropriately to emotion are explored, and an architecture for bringing these techniques together into a coherent system is presented.