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Affective Computing
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Author: Rosalind W. Picard
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ISBN: 0262661152
Publisher: MIT Press (31 July, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 227,185
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Interesting book - Very interesting area.
This is an interesting book, and I strongly agree with Picard's assertion that computers ought to be able to "recognize" and respond to human emotions. She does an excellent job of making and supporting this point. The other part of her thesis, that computers themselves should have "emotions" is much less clear. She never seemed to adequately make the case that a computer with its own emotions would be of any significant value for anything, and frankly I can't think of any useful applications for such an ability. Some sort of emotional component may be needed to fully support and achieve AI (and she makes this point) but in terms of sort of the standard user interface types of applications it's hard to imagine how such a capability could be useful.Anyway, good book on a very interesting topic.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Important ideas
Rosalind Picard's book shouldn't have broken new ground, but it did. The ignoring of the role of emotion in computing is both appalling and typical. Picard begins to rectify this "oversight" ("Whoops, I forgot humans have feelings!") in a fascinating and useful book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The missing ingredient for true artificial intelligence
A fascinating book with many implications for the fields of artifical intelligence and human-computer interaction. Picard provides a rich background on modern research in emotion and puts forth compelling arguments for the need to incorporate affective abilities in computers as, perhaps, the only way to allow them to respond intelligently to their environment and make rational decisions. An entertaining and mind-opening read.
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