Artificial Surprise

Luis Macedo (1) , Amilcar Cardoso (1) , Rainer Reisenzein (2) , Emiliano Lorini (3, 4) , Cristiano Castelfranchi (5)

1 Universidade de Coimbra [Coimbra]
2 Universität Greifswald - University of Greifswald
3 IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5 ST Lab - Semantic Technology Laboratory (CNR / ISTC)

This chapter reviews research on computational models of surprise. Part 1 begins with a description of the phenomenon of surprise in humans, reviews research on surprise, and describes a recent psychological model of surprise (Meyer, 1988; Meyer, Reisenzein, & Schützwohl, 1997). Part 2 is devoted to computational models of surprise, giving special prominence to the models proposed by Macedo and Cardoso (e.g., Macedo & Cardoso, 2001b; Macedo, Reisenzein, & Cardoso, 2004) and by Lorini and Castelfranchi (e.g., Lorini & Castelfranchi, 2007). Part 3 compares these two models of artificial surprise with each other and with the (Meyer et al., 1997) model of human surprise, discusses possible targets of future research, and considers possible practical applications.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Luis Macedo, Amilcar Cardoso, Rainer Reisenzein, Emiliano Lorini, Cristiano Castelfranchi. Artificial Surprise. Jordi Vallverdú (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); David Casacuberta (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 15, IGI Global, pp.267-291, 2009, 978-1605663548. ⟨hal-03672514⟩