Affective Computing
| Author/creator | Picard, Rosalind W. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 304 p. ill 09.800 x 06.800 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation The latest scientific findings indicate that emotions play an essential role indecision making, perception, learning, and more -- that is, they influence the very mechanisms ofrational thinking. Not only too much, but too little emotion can impair decision making. Accordingto Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally withus, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and expressemotions.Part 1 of this book provides the intellectual framework for affectivecomputing. It includes background on human emotions, requirements for emotionally intelligentcomputers, applications of affective computing, and moral and social questions raised by thetechnology. Part 2 discusses the design and construction of affective computers. Although thismaterial is more technical than that in Part 1, the author has kept it less technical than typicalscientific publications in order to make it accessible to newcomers. Topics in Part 2 includesignal-based representations of emotions, human affect recognition as a pattern recognition andlearning problem, recent and ongoing efforts to build models of emotion for synthesizing emotions incomputers, and the new application area of affective wearable computers. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 97033285 |
| ISBN | 9780262661157 |
| ISBN | 0262661152 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262661157 |
| Stock number | 0262661152 00015994 |
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