Scherer describes an expert system on emotion motivated by the need to ``use computer modelling and experimentation as a powerful tool to further theoretical development and collect pertinent data on the emotion-antecedent appraisal process'' [Scherer1993]. His system captures user input feature vectors representing an emotional situation and shows the relative distance from various predicted emotion concepts (categories in our terminology). He uses this as a way of validating the underlying representation of the appraisal-to-emotion process in his system.
Can we repeat or extend Scherer's results using the differing emotion categories, and appraisal structures? In particular, in the Scherer work the user is asked to identify the intensity of the emotional experience being described. Using our current theory, it would be suitable to draw on the antecedents of emotion intensity, embodied in the twenty or so emotion intensity variables given in [Elliott & Siegle1993]. Such work would also dovetail with the ``sympathetic computer'' mentioned above.