This may be of interest to some readers of these newsgroups
I've just been told that a discussion on machines and emotions which I
did for the BBC2 program The NET will be shown next Monday night 10th
Feb at 11.15pm
The recorded discussion took about two hours, but will probably be
compressed to 10 or 15 minutes, so I've no idea what will be included.
I understand it will include extracts from a demonstration of Ian
Wright's early "minder" program (simulated nursemaid looking after a
collection of babies, under varying degrees of stress, written in Pop-11
in 1994).
Ian's program is partly based on Luc Beaudoin's PhD thesis. For more
information on all this work see the Cognition and Affect Project
directory, which includes the thesis, and various other papers about the
project.
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect/
A full listing of papers in that directory is in
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect/0-INDEX
Having recently extended Ian's program I've made some mpeg movies
showing it running and will eventually make them available in a packaged
form via my web page. Anyone in a hurry to see them can look at the
mpeg files in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_demo/minder1.mpg
Nursemaid trying to cope with two babies
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_demo/minder2.mpg
Nursemaid failing to cope with twelve babies
There are also compressed versions of those files, with suffix .gz
People outside this school can fetch them and play them with mpeg_play.
There are also two text files minder1.text and minder2.text with trace
printing showing the generation of motives, plans, switching between
motives etc. The text files have frame numbers for the movies so they
can be correlated easily if your mpeg viewer allows you to step through
frames (mpeg_play does). It may not be totally self explanatory,
however.
Those files have also been copied to our ftp directory
ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect/minder*
(The minder program preceded the sim_agent toolkit described in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_agent.html
It may later be re-implemented using the toolkit, which was designed to
make such things much easier)
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-121-414-4775 (Sec 3711) Fax: +44-121-414-4281
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