Artificial surprise

Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 267-291

  Macedo, Luis ^a   Cardoso, Amilcar ^b   Reisenzein, Rainer ^c   Lorini, Emiliano ^d,e   Castelfranchi, Cristiano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^e IRIT   (France)

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EID: 84862319785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-354-8.ch015     Document Type: Chapter

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