Modelling Machine Emotions for Realizing Intelligence: Foundations and Applications (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 01)

✍ Scribed by Toyoaki Nishida (editor), Colette Faucher (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emotion connects the thought to the body, which is a magnificent biological - vice for sensing and affecting the world. The thought controls the body through emotions. The body affects the thought through emotions. Through this mec- nism, the thought allows the agent to behave intelligently in the complex world filled with a huge amount of dynamic information. The emotion maps a flux of information into a space which the agent is familiar with, enabling her/him to associate ongoing events with past experiences which help to reduce complexity by providing with a nominal solution. Recent findings in brain science suggest that mirror neurons map visual signals into motor signals for the body. This mechanism might permit one to experience the emotion of the other agent just by feeling the motor signals caused by mirror neurons as a result of visual stimuli caused by the other agent’s emotional beh- iors. In particular, it might play a significant role in invoking empathy in a social situation. It may not be hard to think about what might happen to emotion-less machines. The emotion-less machines may not be able to accumulate experiences to avoid serious failures. They may not be able to communicate with the humans in an empathetic way.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Foreword
Editors
Preface
Table of Contents
Advances in Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems
Introduction
Conclusions
References and Further Reading
Use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation Techniques in Environmental Problems
Introduction
The Boolean Evaluation –– Use of GIS in Siting Stabilization Pond Facilities for Domestic Wastewater Treatment
Analyzing the Variables
Sizing and Performance Criteria of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems
Discussion
Weighted Linear Combination –– Combining GIS, Multicriteria Evaluation Techniques and Fuzzy Logic in Siting MSW Landfills
Criteria Group Description and Application
Results
Discussion
Weighted Linear Combination –– Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution: A Combination of GIS, Fuzzy Logic and Decision Making Techniques
Methodology Application
Aggregation Procedure and Results
Discussion
Conclusions
References
Integrating Multimedia GIS Technologies in a Recommendation System for Geotourism
Introduction
Requirements Analysis and MMGIS Database Design
Design of the Recommendation System
Implementation Issues of Multimedia GIS
Conclusions
References
Lighting Design Tools for Interactive Entertainment
Introduction
Traditional Lighting
Game Lighting
Related Work
Architectural Inverse Lighting
Perceptual Inverse Lighting
Interactive Inverse Lighting
Expressive Lighting Engine (ELE)
System for Automated Interactive Lighting (SAIL)
Image Analysis
Modeling an Object’s Response to Light
Runtime Lighting
Study Design
Participants
Study Design
Study Results
Images as Interface
Reflection of Natural Lighting
Conclusions – A Look into the Future of Lighting Design Tools
References
Utilization of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation
Introduction
Animation Parameterization
Motion Data Processing
Relations between Animation Features
Generation of Rules
Results
System Efficiency
Animation System
Conclusions
References
Instructional Design of a Requirements Engineering Education Course for Professional Engineers
Introduction
Educational Styles for RE
Teaching Materials
Introduction to RE
Quality of SRS
Actual Project Situation for Requirements Changes
Means of Achieving RE Goals
Instructional Design of Course
Course Products
Method Selection
Style Selection
Schedule Planning
Course Experience
Workshop Assignment
Products
Evaluation
Conclusions
References
Building Intelligent E-Learning Systems by Activity Monitoring and Analysis
Introduction
Related Work
Concept Maps
K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Software Architecture of Tesys E-Learning Platform
Monitoring Activity in Tesys E-Learning Platform
Data Filtering and Obtaining Recommendations
Analysis Process and Experimental Results
Discusson and Conclusion
References
Supporting the Search for Explanations of Medical Exceptions
Introduction
ISOR-1: Investigating Therapy Inefficacy
System Architecture
Illustration
ISOR-2: Explaining Exceptional Cases
Dialyse and Fitness
Data
Setting up a Model
Setting Up a Case-Base
Illustration of ISOR-2’s Program Flow
Another Problem
Exceptional Cases and Outliers
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Security in Medical Telediagnosis
Introduction
Security Requirements for Telemedicine and Telediagnosis
Methods of Authentication
Authentication Possibilities
SSO Modalities
Secured Data Storage
DICOM Standard
Security Requirements for Medical Data Storage
Distributed Storage of Medical Data
Secured Data Transfer
Vulnerabilities of Telemedecine’s Networks
To Secure Data Transfer in Telemedecine Network
Presentation of Secured Telemedicine Software
Conclusion
References
Audio Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System
Introduction
Audio Analysis for Detection of Threats
Automatic Classification of Sounds for Security Purposes
Localization of Sound Source
Integration of Audio Analysis Module with Monitoring System
Summary
References
Video Content Analysis in the Urban Area Telemonitoring System
Introduction
Basic Video Analysis
Moving Object Detection
Moving Object Tracking
High Level Image Processing for Detection of Threats
Object Classification and Camera Calibration
Event Detection in Video
Object Tracking with PTZ Cameras
Summary
References
Enterprise Attention Management
Introduction
Motivating Examples, Requirements and Framework
Example Scenario 1
Example Scenario 2
Example Scenario 3
Requirements and Framework
A Prototype Enterprise Attention Management System
Pertinent Technologies and Related Work
Attention Aware Systems
Just-in-Time Information Retrieval and Context-Based Information Delivery
Web Alert Systems
RSS-Oriented Enterprise Systems
Other Technologies –– AttentionXML
Conclusions
References
e-Welfare as a Client Driven Service Concept
Background
The Challenge in Elderly – The Demand of New Kind of Competence Sharing
Caring TV – As a Platform
Action Research Enabling the Development of a Client Driven Service Concept
Learning by Developing as an Action Model
The Processes Leading to the Development of a Client Driven Service Design Described as a Case Study
Research Findings as the Basis of Programme Production
The Client Driven Programme Production Process
e-Welfare Services Supporting Quality of Life in Elderly
Conclusion
References
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI): Types, Processing Perspectives and Applications
Introduction
Principles of Noninvasive BCI operation
Event Related Potentials
Steady State Visual Evoked Potentials
Event-Related De/Synchronization
Slow Cortical Potentials
State-of-the-Art in EEG-Based BCI Signal Processing
Laplacian Spatial Filtering
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Independent Component Analysis (ICA)
Common Spatial Patterns (CSP)
Linear Discriminant Analysis Classifier
Support Vector Machines
Invasive BCI Systems
Resources for BCIs
Applications of BCI Research
Invasive BCIs
Noninvasive BCIs
Concluding Implications
References
Author Index