“Emotional Machines: Synthesis and Expression of Emotions in Interactive Installations” presented by Xu
Session Title:
Robotics (artist talks)
Presentation Title:
Emotional Machines: Synthesis and Expression of Emotions in Interactive Installations
Presentation Subtheme:
Speculative practices
Presenter(s):
Abstract:
How to make art installations capable of emotional interaction? Through research on robotics and cognitive psychology, we proposed a mechanism for emotion perception, synthesis, and expression in interactive art. This mechanism utilized deep neural networks as the unit of perception, psychological models as method for emotion synthesis to drive motions generated in real time based on signal processing. Based on this architecture, we created several interactive installations as our study of how emotional factors affect interaction.
