An emotion processing system based on fuzzy inference and subjective observations

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Volume 101, Issues 3–4, October 1997, Pages 217-247

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Abstract

The two theories concerning mixed emotions adopted in this research are briefly explained. Also discussed are the image codes linked to the mixed emotional words, and the way to realize a mechanism using fuzzy inference, in which the internal emotion of a simulated person reacts on a sequence of inputted terms and evokes some emotional change. Next, the relevant part of the theory for a subjective observation model to the application of emotion processing system is briefly explained. The construction methodology of the system, which has two functions, is described. One function is that the evoked emotion is transitive, depending on the observation, and the other is that the aggregated emotion by the several subjective observations settles to the objective emotion. Then, some attractive results obtained by the simulated emotion processing system are shown, namely, what kind of emotions are evoked, and how the emotional transition is done by subjective observations when a poem is used for the input signal. Furthermore, we could obtain several emotional clustering diagrams processed by pair vectors such as [optimism, curiosity], which is a very attractive result from a psychological viewpoint.

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Abstract

Int. J. Approximate Reasoning

Int. J. Approximate Reasoning

Basic theory for subjective observation model and its applications

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An approach to construct an emotional dialogue system based on subjective observation

The multifactor-analytic theory of emotion

J. Psychol.

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An emotion processing system based on fuzzy inference and subjective observations