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Category: Emotion

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Emotions/Computers
The Humaine project . . . has brought together specialists and scholars from very different disciplines to create the building blocks or tools needed to give machines so-called ‘soft’ skills.
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Key Phrase: human-machine interface, the Humaine project
  • Date: April 3, 2008
  • Source: ICT Results

Emotions/Computers
University of Cincinnati researchers Julia Taylor and Larry Mazlack recently unveiled a "bot”  — more accurately a software program — that recognizes jokes. They reported the development at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference in Vancouver, Canada. All bad jokes aside, their research represents a step forward in computers reaching the capability of a human mind.
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Key Phrase: social computing
  • Date: August 2, 2007
  • Source: University of Cincinnati


Emotions/Computers
New experiments show it is possible for computers to detect, at a higher level of sophistication than ever before, people's intentions for the future, neuroscientists reported yesterday.
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Key Phrase: brain-computer interfaces
  • Date: February 9, 2007
  • Source: Live Science, Charles Q. Choi

Emotions/Computers
Many computers are already able to see and hear. However, they have no way of telling whether their users are happy or angry.
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Key Phrase: computers estimating emotions
  • Date: 2005
  • Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Research of Practical Utility

Emotions/Computers
New Ohio State University research suggests that the simulated emotions of digital characters on web sites might have a real impact on the potential customers that view and interact with them.
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Key Phrase: response to computerized faces
  • Date: NA
  • Source: Ohio State University

Emotions/Computers
we should practice “information environmentalism” and balance our “inner landscape” with the speed and quantity of information confronting us
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Key Phrase: mindful work
  • Date: April 24, 2006
  • Source: FCW, Federal Computer Week

Emotions/Decision Making
Emotions and cost/benefit assessment
The role of shame and self-esteem in risk taking
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*context, context, context
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Key Phrase: emotions and decision making
  • Date: 2001
  • Source: UCLA


Emotions/Design
 Design for emotion - or better, design for experience - is hot and rightfully so. Many have acknowledged that triggering a ‘right’ experience can have a tremendous impact on sales and public approval.
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Key Phrase: emotions and design
  • Date: September 28, 2007
  • Source: uiGarden.net

Emotions/Empathy
"Empathy is essential to healing relationships, so it's something all health professionals should be expected to show -- even when it's hard to do so."
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*this article is about empathy and doctors, but info is transferrable to designers and their users
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Key Phrase: doctors and empathy, emotional labor
  • Date: March 1, 2005
  • Source: University of Washington

Emotions/Empathy
Japan's future dentists may soon be able to better appreciate patients' pain by training on a humanoid robot that can mumble "ouch" when the drill hits a nerve.
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Key Phrase: dental training and empathy
  • Date: November 28, 2007
  • Source: PHYSORG.com

Emotions/Empathy
The findings shed new light on empathy and its importance for animals which live in groups. It also reveals that empathy of positive emotions or contagious laughter evolved before humans.
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Key Phrase: animals and empathy
  • Date: December 13, 2007
  • Source: University of Portsmouth

Emotions/Rationality
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
"The second virtue is relinquishment.  P. C. Hodgell said:  "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."  Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs."
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*The author is apparently a fan, as am I, of The Book of Five Rings.
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Key Phrase: twelve virtues of rationality
  • Date: 2006
  • Source: The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Eliezer Yudkowsky

Emotions/Recognition
If you're planning to rob a bank, there's one thing you must not forget: to cover your face. Otherwise, just a brief glance will allow all the other social animals around you to identify you. What is the neural basis of the extraordinary ability of humans to recognize faces?
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Key Phrase: face recognition
  • Date: October 6, 2006
  • Source: Science/AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Emotion/Robots
It seems unlikely that a toddler would pass up a teddy bear for a hunk of metal. But in a new study, toddlers developed strong social bonds with robots, largely ignoring their traditional toys.
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Key Phrase: robot and toddler interaction
  • Date: November 5, 2007
  • Source: ScienceNOW Daily News

Emotions/Trauma
The question of whether it is possible to function well despite a history of trauma or abuse falls under the topic of ’resilience.’ In the last two decades a great deal has been learned about how such positive functioning or recovery can occur in the face of adversity.
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Key Phrase: resilience
  • Date: October 9, 2006
  • Source: University of Minnesota





 
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