http://www.osnews.com/story/17046/Looking_Ahead_Where_Computers_and_Emotion_Meet Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:33:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?205403 http://osnews.com/thread?205403 it sees your expresion after a Blue Screen of Death? Oh... I forgot, by that time the application will be lost in SW heaven. :-D Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eantoranz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205555 http://osnews.com/thread?205555 So Artificial Intelligence becomes an extinguished species? Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205723 http://osnews.com/thread?205723 The emotion research and development is in *addition* to AI research. It doesn't replace it.

AI is about teaching computers to "think" or "reason" -- or at least to approximate the process. And it's about what the computer does, not what's done by the humanswho interact with the computer. In contrast, the emotive computing research is about the way computers collect and massage "data" which is based on emotion -- such as the example from the call center that's in the article. And it's not about the computer emulating emotion (i.e. not Star Trek's Data desiring to feel emotion).

--Esther
the article's author
http://blogs.cio.com/blog/37 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (estherschindler) Comments