Preface

Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations

Volume

Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

The objective of this symposium is to provide a multidisciplinary forum focusing on mechanisms underlying agent architectures that include or emphasize emotion. In particular, we focus on two aspects not contemplated in previous symposia and workshops: validation of emotion models and architectures, and relevance of recent findings from affective neuroscience research, in addition to existing research in psychology. We wish to explore the ways in which neuroscience and psychology results can motivate and inform the design of emotion models and architectures, constrain specific mechanisms and processes within these models, serve as a source of data for model and architecture validation, and benefit from the feedback provided by computational models and tools.