Silicon Coppélia and the Formalization of the Affective Process

Abstract

After 20 years of testing a framework for affective user responses to artificial agents and robots, we compiled a full formalization of our findings so to make the agent respond affectively to its user. Silicon Coppélia as we dubbed our system works from the features of the observed other, appraises these in various domains (e.g., ethics and affordances), then compares them to goals and concerns of the agent, to finally reach a response that includes intentions to work with the user as well as a level of being engaged with the user. This ultimately results in an action that adds to or changes the situation both agencies are in. Unlike many other systems, Silicon Coppélia can deal with ambiguous emotions of its user and has ambiguous 'feelings' of its own, which makes its decisions quite human-like. In the current paper, we advance a fuzzy-sets approach and show the inner workings of our system through an elaborate example. We present a number of simulation experiments, one of which showed decision behaviors based on biases when agent goals had low priorities. Silicon Coppélia is open to scrutiny and experimentation by way of an open-source implementation in Ptolemy.

Quantum affective processes for multidimensional decision-making

“…In earlier work on affective processing, Hoorn et al discerned a feature-encoding phase, a comparison phase, and a response phase, using fuzzy logic to represent a robot’s response (Fig. 1 ) 1 . In Fig.…”

“…As revealed in Eq. ( S17 ), the two terms represent different operations for compensation 1 . In the quantum circuit, the or operation and the rotation indicate the two operations.…”

“…To design empathic androids that can handle the emotional ambiguity of their users and can simulate mixed feelings themselves, Hoorn et al developed a fuzzy logic approach to robot affect 1 . Such a robot system should be able to process the affective impulses from its surroundings, in most cases, human affect.…”

“…Earlier, we worked on the affective system coined Silicon Coppélia 1 . Silicon Coppélia is equipped with fuzzy logic with a complete and elaborated implementation of interpreting observed features, comparing those with goals, and evaluating the decision to an action based on the use intentions and level of engagement 1 . Emotion-regulation strategies are present inside the Silicon Coppélia system to resemble cognitive control over sometimes too intense affective responses.…”

“…Quantum Coppélia (Q-Coppélia) attempts to provide a conceptual framework of an affective system for quantum computation, which is sufficiently specific for processing real observations, based on the Silicon Coppélia model 1 . In Section “ Theory ” of this article, selected quantum properties are highlighted as the foundation of Q-Coppélia, followed by discussions of certain building blocks of the quantum circuits.…”