abril 15, 2004

If your tired of refining your investigation searches in google.com, try scirus.com.

http://www.scirus.com

because it enables you to quickly:

• Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
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Artificial Emotion
Sherry Turkle interview to Boston Globe

She says, we become attached to sophisticated machines not for their smarts but their emotional reach.

"They seduce us by asking for human nurturance, not intelligence," she says.

"We're suckers not for realism but for relationships."

Kids, she has found, define aliveness in terms of emotion: "In meeting objects as simple as Furbys, their conversations of aliveness have to do with if a computer loves them and if they love the computer."
The Love Machine

the 3 distinct areas to go when delving into emotion and computers

. emotion perception
. emotion interpretation
. emotion expression

Picard (1997)

abril 14, 2004

Today arrived

Nico Frijda, The Emotions, 1986

John LeDoux, The Emotional Brain, 1998
I’ll present a paper about emotion and virtual illusion, next week, day 21 of April at University of Covilhã, Portugal.

"Emotion Elements in Virtual Interactive Entertainment"

abstract: The convergence of narrative forms and directing/editing techniques between videogames and film are becoming a reality. Although the emotion intensity created by film is far superior to videogames. This paper presents a specification of emotion elements in interactive entertainment captured through neuroscience, cognitive science and film theory areas of knowledge...

it will be presented in the conference LUSOCOM 2004 (http://www.lusocom2004.ubi.pt)

fevereiro 28, 2004

John Barlow about cyberspace

«. diversity is as essential to healthy community as it is to healthy ecosystems... I believe that the principal reason for the almost universal failure of the intentional communities ... is lack of diversity in their members.
It's rare a commune with people fundamentally out of philosophical agreement with the majority.»

«Like Frankenstein... is the usual problem when we try to build something which can only be grown.»

«. Cyberspace missing elements
a) absence of alternatives
b) sense of genuine adversity, generally shared» [we don't have this at movies also]

fevereiro 02, 2004

The Philosophy of Horror, by Noel Carroll

Image and Mind : Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, by Gregory Currie

Suspense: Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses, and Empirical Explorations (Lea's Communication Series) eds. Peter Vorderer

Affective Interactions: Toward a New Generation of Computer Interfaces (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1814.) eds. Ana Paiva

The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions (Series in Affective Science)
eds. Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, Davidson Ekman

janeiro 17, 2004

MelbourneDAC, the 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference.
May 19 - 23, 2003


Ph. D. Panel Session

The main advice from the experienced Doctorate Candidates:

. don't mess up your life just before you submit the thesis. (keep your boyfriend or husband around until after you have submitted.)
. write about something you like.
. spend time on preparing your work.
. focus on theory - whether you want to use it or develop it.
. write, write, write, present and publish.
. get a good supervisor.

dezembro 18, 2003

EMOTION and FILM



. Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith

. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion by Carl Plantinga (Editor), Greg M. Smith (Editor)

. Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film: Film as an Emotion Machine by Ed S. Tan

. Engaging characters : fiction, emotion, and the cinema by Murray Smith

. The Photoplay a Psychological Study by Hugo Munsterberg

. Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery by Per Persson

. The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory by Joseph D. Anderson