Artificial Emotions for Artificial Systems

Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior

Volume

Papers from the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

To produce emotional artificial systems in AI domain, usually a subset of human emotional states are imported to the target domain and the major differences between natural and artificial domains are often ignored. In this paper we will discuss about why such an approach is not useful for all possible applications of emotions and we will show how it is necessary and possible to produce artificial emotion systems based on the target systems goals, abilities and needs.