I think the presenter touches on some very good points in this video, including how robots will not only have to express, but to read emotion as well in order to interact with humans in the situations he posits. I’ve been thinking a lot about WALL-E lately, and the human psychology of projection is essential to our perception of emotion expressed by the robotic characters. Indeed, the faces of these real and animated robots are very expressive. But our video-mediated experience of them also utilize non-diegetic devices such as music and editing. It reminds me of the Kuleshov effect, where editing and psychological projection, not expression, gave the audience the perception of emotion in the subject. We personify objects all the time. Convincing humans of emotion in machines or media is actually pretty easy- maybe to easy…

Think of how cryptic humans can be when dealing with each other. We have learned to mask our emotions, read into each other, and in spite of our technological marvels, have the ability to revert to quite primal behavior. While it may be fun or interesting to create emotional machines, computers work on programming, and not every programmer can predict every real user. We have the ability to infinitely copy programs and model machines on them. The medical and patient care fields are often at the forefront of emerging technology, but I think hospitals are places where human emotions can range from quite complex to the primal, and a small number of robot programmers are not going to improve every situation. Cultural biases regarding sickness and health present further challenges to human-machine interaction.

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