This collection presents a diverse overview of where the development of artificial minds is as the twenty-first century begins. Examined from nearly all viewpoints, this book includes perspectives from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and artificial intelligence. The...

"This book examines innovative research in the emerging, multidisciplinary field of cognitive informatics, portraying the connections between natural science and informatics that are investigated in this fundamental collection of cognitive informatics research"--Provided by publisher.

Section 1. Recognizing Emotions -- 1. Emotional Modeling in an Interactive Robotic Head -- 2. Automatic Detection of Emotion in Music: Interaction with Emotionally Sensitive Machines -- 3. Facial Expression Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis: Overcoming the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence...

"This book presents recent research efforts in Artificial Intelligence about building artificial systems capable of performing cognitive tasks. A fundamental issue addressed in this book is if these cognitive processes can have any meaningfulness to the artificial system being built"--Provided...