Emotion-oriented computing, Humaine

Looks like a very interesting site and concepts.

clipped from emotion-research.net Not sure what HUMAINE is all about? Overwhelmed by the amount of information available? This page gives you a structured entry point. Emotion-oriented computing is a broad research area involving many disciplines The following figure is our proposed map of the thematic areas involved in emotion-oriented computing. The central column represents the areas where purely technological challenges loom largest The left hand column deals with issues where application is most obviously of concern The right hand column contains the sub-areas with the strongest roots in psychology. The task of synthesising agents that can interact emotionally is at the center because it summarises the state of the art – it cannot be done well without satisfactory progress in all the others. either edge of the diagram are issues with a strong philosophical element which affect the whole enterprise – finding appropriate ways to describe emotions and emotion-related states, and the ethics of emotion-oriented systems.