Evaluating Explicit Models of Affective Interactions

A question arising out of the late 80’s about computation systems was could machines be intelligent without emotions ([Minsky 1988]). It seems that the machines of today are not only inhuman but also behave stupidly. Studies by psychologists have shown that humans who lack the emotional features usually used by many aspects of human reasoning do not behave intelligently [Damasio 1994]. This theory of requiring emotional synthesis when reasoning is well illustrated by Picard reported in affective computing [Picard 1997]. Picard provides further evidence of the emotional state of mind as an attribute to intelligent behaviour and outlines that the limitations of Artificial Intelligence in the 80’s may be partly contributed to the lack of applying emotional context to logical reasoning models. A number of collective case studies by Hersham and Lieb have illustrated that the work of genius is often surrounded by high emotional states during the development of outstanding work [Hersham & Leib 1987].