%0 Book Section %B Emotions in Humans and Artifacts %D 2003 %T Designing emotions for activity selection in autonomous agents %A Cañamero, Lola D %E Robert Trappl %E Paolo Petta %E Sabine Payr %X This chapter advocates a "bottom-up" philosophy for the design of emotional systems for autonomous agents that is guided by functional concerns and considers the particular case of designing emotions as mechanisms for action selection. The concrete realization of these ideas implies that the design process must start with an analysis of the requirements that the features of the environment, the characteristics of the action-selection task, and the agent architecture impose on the emotional system. This is particularly important if we see emotions as mechanisms that aim at modifying or maintaining the relation of the agent with its (external and internal) environment (rather than modifying the environment itself) in order to preserve the agent's goals. Emotions can then be selected and designed according to the roles they play with respect to this relation. %B Emotions in Humans and Artifacts %I MIT Press %P 115–148 %@ 9780262201421 %G eng %& 4 %0 Journal Article %J Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal %D 2001 %T Emotions and Adaptation in Autonomous Agents: A Design Perspective %A Cañamero, Lola D %E Cañamero, Lola D %E Paolo Petta %X Why would we want to endow artificial autonomous agents with emotions? The main answer to this question seems to rely on what has been called the functional view of emotions, arising from (analytic) studies of natural systems. In this paper, I examine to what extent this hypothesis can be applied to the (synthetic) investigation of artificial emotions and what are its implications for the design of emotional agents, the main approaches that can be appropriately used to model emotions in autonomous agents, and why situated autonomous agents provide a good framework to study the relation between emotion and adaptation. %B Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal %I Taylor & Francis %V 32 %P 507–529 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01969720120250 %N 5 %R 10.1080/01969720120250 %0 Generic %D 2001 %T Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume I %E Cañamero, Lola D %E Paolo Petta %B Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal %I Taylor & Francis %V 32 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ucbs20/32/5 %N 5 %0 Generic %D 2001 %T Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Volume II %E Cañamero, Lola D %E Paolo Petta %B Special Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal %I Taylor & Francis %V 32 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ucbs20/32/6 %N 6 %0 Conference Proceedings %D 1998 %T Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems. Papers of the workshop held during the Fifth International Conference of The Society for Adaptive Behavior (SAB'98) %E D Cañamero %E Chisato Numaoka %E Paolo Petta %C University of Zurich, Switzerland %G eng %U http://www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta/conf/sab98/sab98ws.html