TR#532: Building HAL: Computers that sense, recognize, and respond
to human emotion
Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI, part of IS&T;/SPIE9s Photonics West 2001
ABSTRACT
The HAL 9000 computer, the inimitable star of the classic Kubrick and
Clarke film "2001: A Space Odyssey," displayed image understanding
capabilities vastly beyond today's computer systems. HAL could not
only instantly recognize who he was interacting with, but also he
could lip read, judge aesthetics of visual sketches, recognize
emotions subtly expressed by scientists on board the ship, and respond
to these emotions in an adaptive personalized way. Of course, HAL
also had capabilities that we might not want to give to machines, like
the ability to terminate life support or otherwise take lives of
people. This presentation highlights recent research in giving
machines certain affective abilities that aim to make them more
intelligent, shows examples of some of these systems, and describes
the role that affective abilities may play in future human-computer
interaction.
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