Can machines simulate, express or even have emotions? Is it a good to build such machines? How do humans react emotionally to them and how should such devices be treated from a moral point of view? This volume addresses these and related questions by bringing together perspectives from affective computing and emotional human-machine interaction, combining technological approaches with those from the humanities and social sciences. It thus relates disciplines such as philosophy, computer science, technology, psychology, sociology, design, and art. The volume offers readers interested in the phenomenon of emotional machines new perspectives from a variety of disciplines and addresses fundamental questions that will become pressing in the foreseeable future as emotional machines increasingly populate our everyday lives. The Editors Catrin Misselhorn, chair of philosophy at the University of Göttingen Tom PoljanSek, post-doc in philosophy at the University of Göttingen. Tobias Störzinger, post-doc in philosophy at the University of Göttingen. Maike Klein, project manager at the German Informatics Society.

Autorentext

Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn teaches philosophy at the University of Göttingen. Tom PoljanSek is Assistant to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. Dr. Tobias Störzinger is Post-doc and research associate at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. Maike Klein is a philosopher and works at the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) in Berlin.

Klappentext

Interdisciplinary research on emotions in machines has been divided until now in two branches of research which have so far been largely unrelated: affective computing and emotional human-machine interaction. By associating these two branches and by combining technological perspectives with the humanities and social sciences, we hope to provide a forum for research on machines that are supposed to be equipped with emotions and/or are capable of interacting emotionally with humans. In our volume "Emotional Machines", we aim to reunite approaches from disciplines such as philosophy, computer science, engineering, psychology, sociology, design and the arts.

Inhalt

Introduction.- First Part: Theoretical Foundations of Artificial Emotions.- Second Part: Design and Social Integration of Social Robots.- Third part Artistic Explorations.