Proceedings of the first HUMAINE Workshop, Geneva June 17-19, 2004

First of all, we would like to thank you all for your participation, support, and enthusiasm.

We hope that you had as much pleasure attending the workshop as we had hosting all of you in Geneva! The discussions and debates born during the workshop foreshadow great interactions, both scientific and less scientific!

Hereafter will be gathered all the material produced for, and during, the workshop. From it, we will compile a comprehensive document that will serve as a reference for further discussions. If you have additional material that you think could be useful for us, please share them.

Also, you can download what others wrote, and react to it by following this link: react! — nota: you must be logged on the portal. Reactions and comments could be added to the final main document, which will be downloadable from the portal.

If you have questions, problems, comments, send an email to Etienne Roesch.

Thank you!

Abstract

Geneva held the first HUMAINE workshop on June 17-19, 2004, entitled " Theories and Models of Emotion". 65 researchers from different - sometimes opposite - research fields took part in promising, enthusiastic and very stimulating discussions.

The aim of the workshop was to bridge gaps between disciplines such as Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, Ethology, and Computer Science by attempting to create a cohesive Affective Science research community. The format we chose was largely based on interactions between people, introducing a question-answer process to stimulate cognitive appetites.

People arrived on Thursday, June 17, 2004. After a short introduction during which representatives introduced to the Geneva research groups, we gathered at the poster session while enjoying a drink or two.

Friday, June 18, 2004, was our first day of debate. The morning session was the chance for Computer Scientists to explain, in detail, their research goals by introducing the audience to live demonstrations of their systems. This session covered a number of important topics of discussion and drew the curiosity of the non-Computer Scientists. The afternoon had a didactic function as talks were given on the possible outcomes of each represented discipline of the study of emotions, namely Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Robotic, and Neural Networks. We concluded the first day on the Rhône river, by a memorable banquet.

Saturday was our last day of discussions. The morning session was divided into 3 different "work groups". The explicit goal was to explore and
define the possible outcomes of the WP3. During this "getting-our-hands-greasy" part of the day, the work groups detailed a course of action for the next several years and the deliverables of WP3. Synthesis and talks concluded the workshop.

Pictures taken during the workshop can be found here.

Further discussions can take place on the WP3 forum.

WHEN:

From Thursday, June 17, 2004 — 6pm
To Saturday, June 19, 2004 — around 6pm

WHERE:

University of Geneva - Uni-Mail
40 Boulevard du Pont d'Arve
1205 Geneva
SWITZERLAND

WHAT:

Hands-on demonstrations of artificial emotion systems

Additional material, as well as the presentations that were given, can be downloaded hereafter. Some of it is restricted to HUMAINE members ; i.e., non-HUMAINE members will not be able to see the content of the directory. Video files will be made available shortly.

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Sander, D. (2004, June 18). Possible solutions from Cognitive Neurosciences models of emotion. Presented at the HUMAINE workshop on "Theories and Models of Emotion". Document retrieved June 18, 2004, from http://emotion-research.net/ws/wp3/.