Program of GEW'95

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                        Call for Applications

                       GENEVA EMOTION WEEK '95

                      April 8 to April 13, 1995
                   University of Geneva, Switzerland

The Emotion Research Group at the University of Geneva announces the
third GENEVA EMOTION WEEK (GEW '95), consisting of a colloquium focusing
on a major topic in the psychology of emotion, and of a series of
workshops designed to introduce participants to advanced research
methods in the field of emotion.

The colloquium consists of extensive presentations of theoretical and
methodological approaches as well as recent empirical work by a group of
invited speakers and faculty members of the University of Geneva. Ample
time is allotted for discussion. The colloquium lasts 3 days. The theme
chosen for the GEW '95 is:

                         Artificial Emotions

The intention of  GEW'95 is to bring together researchers in  diverse
disciplines, including AI, neurosciences, philosophy, and psychology,
who share an interest in architectures and mechanisms underlying
emotion, motivation, and intelligence. The focus is on architectural
requirements for an autonomous agent, combining the various sub-
functions and sub-mechanisms normally studied separately in AI and
Psychology. GEW'95 is organized in collaboration with the Cognition
and Affect Group under the direction of Prof. Aaron Sloman at the
Cognitive Science Research Center, University of Birmingham.
This group organized the first Workshop on Architectures for
Understanding Motivation and Emotions (WAUME93) at Birmingham
and is pleased that WAUME95 is to be merged with GEW'95.

Speakers and Topics of the colloquium:
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Prof. Joseph Le Doux, New York University: 
-  Neural Computation of Emotional Meaning by the Brain.

Prof. Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton: 
-  Measuring and Modelling Performance Capacities and 
   Qualitative States.

Prof. Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham: 
-  Architectures for Emotional Agents.

Prof. Klaus Scherer, University of  Geneva: 
-  Computer Modeling of Appraisal Processes.

Discussant: Prof. Nico Frijda, Univ. Amsterdam

The  workshops will  be dedicated to practical work,  e.g. simulation
models, tools, problems, etc. The workshops listed below will be held by
the  organizers  and  the  invited speakers.  In addition,  2 or 3 workshop
proposals from participants for workshops lasting between 1.5  and
3  hours will be selected on a competitive basis. At the  end  of  each
workshop  day  there  will  be  a  session  (3  x  2h)  for  posters,
demonstrations, videos, and individual discussions.

The topics of the invited workshops, each lasting approx. 3 hours are:
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Dr. Jorge Armony, Center for Neuroscience, New York:
-  An Anatomically Constrained Connectionist Model of Fear Conditioning.

Prof. Stevan Harnad, Southampton:
- Turing Testing and the Causal Status of Affect. 

Prof. Aaron Sloman, Cognition and Affect Group, Birmingham:
-  Exploring Motivated Agent Design.

Dr. Prem Kalra, Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Miralab, Geneva:
- Simulating Facial Expressions and Phonemes for Virtual Humans.

Dr. Thomas Wehrle, Prof. Klaus Scherer, Emotion Research Group, Geneva:
-  Computational Models:  Open Issues.
-  A Psychological Modeling Environment for Autonomous Agents.


Prospective participants are researchers or doctoral students 
working in AI, neurosciences, philosophy, or psychology. 
Admission for the limited number of places is decided on the basis 
of prior application. People interested in participating are asked to 
fill in the enclosed application form as soon as possible and before
                         January 31, 1995


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APPLICATION FORM (please append a short Curriculum Vitae)
GENEVA EMOTION WEEK (GEW'95): April 8 to 13, 1995

                    
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