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Human Machine Interaction: The Special Role for Human Unconscious Emotional Information Processing

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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2005)

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The nature of (un)conscious human emotional information processing remains a great mystery. On the one hand, classical models view human conscious emotional information processing as computation among the brain’s neurons but fail to address its enigmatic features. On the other hand, quantum processes (superposition of states, nonlocality, entanglement,) also remain mysterious, yet are being harnessed in revolutionary information technologies like quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation. In this paper, we would like to discuss several experiments that suggest a special role for unconscious emotional information processing in the human-computer interaction. What are its consequences and could this be the missing link between quantum information theory and conscious human emotional information processing?

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  1. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, N-5009, Bergen, Norway

    Maurits van den Noort & Kenneth Hugdahl

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Sandviksleitet 1, N-5035, Bergen, Norway

    Peggy Bosch

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  1. National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,  

    Jianhua Tao

  2. National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Tieniu Tan

  3. MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Rosalind W. Picard

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van den Noort, M., Hugdahl, K., Bosch, P. (2005). Human Machine Interaction: The Special Role for Human Unconscious Emotional Information Processing. In: Tao, J., Tan, T., Picard, R.W. (eds) Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. ACII 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3784. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11573548_77

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