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A Roadmap to Emotionally Intelligent Creative Virtual Assistants

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Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists (BICA 2017)

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Cognitive psychology has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge about human social emotions, emotional appraisals and their usage in decision making. Can an emotional cognitive architecture injected into an artifact make it more “humane”, and therefore, more productive in a variety of creative collaboration paradigms? Here, we argue that the answer is positive. A large number of research projects in the field of digital art that are currently underway could benefit from integration of an emotional architecture component into them. An example is the project Robodanza (a robotic dancer), the functioning of which is based on a hidden Markov model trained by a genetic algorithm, yet lacking deep emotional intelligence. Generalizing on this example, we outline a roadmap to building a variety of useful virtual creative assistants to humans based on an emotionally intelligent cognitive architecture.

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The authors are grateful to Dr. Sergey Misyurin, Professor and Director of ICIS of the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, Moscow, Russian Federation, for useful discussions. Our greatest thanks go to Drs. Ignazio Infantino and Umberto Maniscalco, Researchers at ICAR-CNR, section of Palermo, Italy, who provided us with useful background. This work was supported by the RSF Grant # 15-11-30014.

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    Alexander A. Eidlin & Alexei V. Samsonovich

  2. Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Alexei V. Samsonovich

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Eidlin, A.A., Samsonovich, A.V. (2018). A Roadmap to Emotionally Intelligent Creative Virtual Assistants. In: Samsonovich, A., Klimov, V. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) for Young Scientists. BICA 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 636. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63940-6_7

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