Affective Computing
$132.51
- Paperback
306 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2000
Summary
According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions.The latest scientific findings indicate that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more-that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. Not only too much, but too little emotion can impair decision making. According to Rosalind Pi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262661157 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262661152 |
| Author: | Rosalind W. Picard |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 306 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2000 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 249mm x 173mm x 15mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“Compelling… Picard convincingly demonstrates that computers can also be designed to think about feelings and how to rationally act in light of them… A groundbreaking preface to a plausible direction in computer design.” Norman Weinstein, Technology Review “Today’s computers are cold, logical machines. They needn’t be. In thisimportant book, Rosalind Picard presents a compelling image, not only ofhow machines might come to have emotions, but why they must. Emotions: notjust for animals and people.” Donald A. Norman , Hewlett-Packard; Professor Emeritus, CognitiveScience, University of California, San Diego; Author of Things that makeus smart
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