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Other areas of applicability

There are a number of other areas where a broad, but shallow computer representation of emotion and personality might be useful. These include testing the ability of the computer to represent the underlying principles in many areas of human endeavor. To this end we are formalizing representations in many different domains, including, in addition to the above mentioned domains, business applications (including selling, and financial statement analysis - where personal interpretation and preference of the analyst is actually somewhat common), and storytelling (using emotion themes as organizing principles similar to Lehnert's plot units [Lehnert1981], (cf. [Reeves1991])).

Other appropriate uses include military applications where training to deal with stressful situations must include a model of personality and emotion and social interaction, as well as role; understanding of political personalities (do world leaders act according to logic, or according to a personal codes based on different principles, and goals?)[Bannerjee1991]; family politics; and social simulations [Kass et al. 1992].



Clark Elliott
Thu May 2 01:02:59 CDT 1996