Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Creatures

2009 ◽  
pp. 350-378
Author(s):  
Félix Francisco Ramos Corchado ◽  
Héctor Rafael Orozco Aguirre ◽  
Luis Alfonso Razo Ruvalcaba
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Emotion Control ◽  
Process Behavior ◽  
Virtual Creatures ◽  
Competence Framework

Emotions play an essential role in the cognitive processes of an avatar and are a crucial element for modeling its perception, learning, decision process, behavior and other cognitive functions. Intense emotions can affect significantly the behavior of an avatar in a virtual environment, for instance, driving its behavior unstable as the consequence of deep emotional influence. The response of an avatar to such influence is the development of the capacity to recognize and manage emotions. In this work we describe a new faculty called Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI), and we propose a model based on Emotional Intelligence (EI) to develop a new approach to the problem of mood and emotion control. This approach applies the concept of EI and provides the needed tools to make avatars have AEI. In addition, we use the Emotional Competence Framework (ECF) to define and apply the personal and social competencies of an avatar.

scholarly journals The Assessment of the Innovativeness of a New Medicine in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Fortinguerra ◽  
Serena Perna ◽  
Roberto Marini ◽  
Alessandra Dell'Utri ◽  
Maurizio Trapanese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Classification Tree ◽  
Orphan Drugs ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Medical Product ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Therapeutic Value

Objectives: Starting from April 2017, the Italian Medicine Agency (AIFA) has approved new criteria for defining any new medicinal product with an innovative indication. The purpose of the study is to analyze the activity of innovativeness evaluation according to the new approach, to estimate the weight of each criterion considered for innovativeness definition, and to evaluate how the new approach works in terms of consistency and reproducibility.Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on the final reports evaluating the drug innovativeness assessment published on the AIFA's website between April 2017 and January 2021. Descriptive statistics, chi-square test, whether the conditions were respected, or Fisher's exact test was used to explore the association between characteristics of drugs and the innovativeness status and the association between the three criteria. Profiles of the decision process and their relationship with innovativeness response were described. In order to evaluate the weight of each criterion in predicting the innovativeness status, a Classification Tree (CT) algorithm was applied.Results: Overall, of the 109 published drugs reports, 37 (33.9%) were recognized as fully innovative, 29 (26.6%) were considered conditionally innovative, while for 43 (39.4%) reports innovativeness was not recognized. Considering the three criteria of the decision process, the added therapeutic value was the only criterion statistically associated with a drug's degree of innovation (p < 0.001). The therapeutic need and the quality of clinical evidence were statistically associated (p = 0.008) even if only a mild association was observed. The added therapeutic value was the most important variable in predicting the innovativeness status according to the classification tree (CT) model applied, achieving an accuracy of 89.4%. No difference was found between orphans and non-orphan drugs or oncological and non-oncological drugs.Discussion: The added therapeutic value is the most important criterion of the multidimensional approach for the innovativeness status definition of a new medical product. A mild association was found between the therapeutic need and the quality of evidence. Overall, similar decision profiles bring the same evaluation of innovativeness status, indicating a good consistency and reproducibility between decisions.

Emotional Intelligence Features at a Pathology of Corpus Callosum (CC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S634-S634
Author(s):  
M. Kovyazina ◽  
F. Ksenia ◽  
N. Varako ◽  
O. Dobrushina ◽  
S. Martynov
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Corpus Callosum ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotion Control ◽  
Frontal Zones ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Emotional Condition ◽  
Hemispheric Interaction

IntroductionDependents of human behavior on the hemispheric interaction quality is extremely interesting question. The СС impairments are observed at schizophrenia, autism, Tourette syndrome, ADHD, etc. Difficulties in the sphere of emotional intelligence are typical at not only frontal zones disorders and right hemisphere of brain.AimsAnalyze the emotional intelligence of the patients with CC pathologies.MethodsMethod for the recognition of facial expression (faces and gestures); Video test “estimation of another person emotional condition”; Survey for the estimation of emotional intelligence (EmIn); ten people with different CC pathologies participated.ResultsResults of the person with the CC pathologies were different from normative indexes of the first two methods. They did not recognize the shown emotion: the sign of emotional expression was not identified, the gestures were not distinguished and three positive characteristics out of 24 suggested for the designation of emotion modality were used. The emotions of heroes from video test were recognized mistakenly. The indexes were normative for all scales of EmIn survey. However quite noticeable negative correlation of“emotion control” and “interpersonal emotional intelligence” survey indexes with the index of emotional recognition video test was obtained.ConclusionsWeak emotional tone, leading to incorrect estimation of the emotional sign, is observed at CC pathology. This doesn’t exclude the violation of face emotional expressions analyze criteria. The situational context does not help the another person condition recognition. The answers on the EmIn test questions are based on subjective visions of the patient about themselves, those witnesses about the criticism reduction.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Niko Tinbergen's life and work: a new approach to biology

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-553
Author(s):  
Iver Mysterud
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Acid Deficiency ◽  
Facteurs Environnementaux ◽  
Fatty Acid Deficiency ◽  
Protein Intolerance

English The life and work of the eminent ethologist and Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907—1988) played an essential role in the introduction of a new approach that is transforming the scientific understanding of animal behaviour, human nature and evolution. This article focuses on an extremely well-written biography of him, Niko's Nature, by Hans Kruuk, one of Tinbergen's former students. Niko's Nature is more than a biography: it is a presentation and an evaluation of the main lines of European ethology and behaviour research in the 20th century up to the 1980s. Tinbergen suffered from depression most of his adult life, and if he had been a child today, he probably would have been diagnosed as hyperactive (ADHD). Tinbergen fits into a pattern of lifelong fatty-acid deficiency. I also discuss other possible causes of his problems (like protein intolerance, vitamin deficiency, genetics and novel environmental factors) and speculate how Tinbergen would have approached such issues if he were alive today. French La vie et l’oeuvre de Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988), éthologue éminent et Prix Nobel, ont été essentielles pour l’apparition d’une approche nouvelle dans la compréhension scientifique du comportement animal, de la nature humaine et de l’évolution. Ce texte commente une biographie de Tinbergen écrite par l’un de ses anciens étudiants Hans Kruuk, Niko’s Nature. Niko’s Nature est plus qu’une simple biographie, il s’agit en fait d’une présentation et d’une évaluation des principaux courants de l’éthologie et de la recherche comportementale en Europe au 20ème siècle, jusqu’aux années 1980. Durant toute sa vie d’adulte, Tinbergen a souffert de dépression et s’il avait été enfant de nos jours, il aurait probablement été diagnostiqué comme enfant hyperactif (THADA). Tinbergen semble correspondre à un schéma de déficience durable en acides gras. L’auteur évoque aussi d’autres pistes explicatives (comme l’intolérance aux protéines, la déficience en vitamines, la génétique, l’apparition de nouveaux facteurs environnementaux) et s’interroge sur la façon dont Tinbergen aurait approché l’étude de ces questions s’il était encore vivant.

scholarly journals Why Traditional Chinese Medicine can not be a new approach to alleviate the symptoms of COVID-19 ?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geer Chen ◽  
Yehao Luo ◽  
Donghan Xu ◽  
Yuzhou Pang ◽  
Peiqi Ou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Cough Headache ◽  
Herbal Decoction ◽  
Difficulty Breathing ◽  
Severe Type

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a unique set of therapeutic methods for plagues. COVID-19 is a severe type of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus, which manifests in fever, cough, headache, fatigue, difficulty breathing, and other symptoms. TCM has fully displayed its advantages of various approaches in this epidemic, including herbal decoction, patent herbs, aroma packets, acupuncture, massage, etc. These methods have played an essential role in the prevention, treatment, and nursing of COVID-19, not only in alleviating the early clinical symptoms of patients but reducing the progression from mild to severe symptoms. Thanks to the advantages of treating the pandemic, we should pay more attention to TCM modalities.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence of Students: Helping the Critical Few

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Instructional Methods ◽  
Hospitality Management ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
The Impact

Research has shown that students’ emotional intelligence (EI) can be enhanced with time intensive instructional methods other studies are inconclusive. I looked at the impact of including short EI lessons in an introductory hospitality management class. Results show that students who started with low EI increased their scores significantly; however, those with medium and high EI did not. More intensive EI lessons may be needed for those who start with higher levels of EI. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) reflections were used and the results of the current study were also compared to other similar studies to identify EI teaching methods among faculty in other disciplines. My recommendations are included for those who want to incorporate EI lessons into their classes to enhance students’ emotional and social competencies.

Enhancing Disability Determination Decision Process Through Natural Language Processing

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Eslam Amer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Biomedical Text ◽  
Biomedical Text Mining ◽  
Disability Benefits ◽  
Disability Benefit ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Disability Determination

In this article, a new approach is introduced that makes use of the valuable information that can be extracted from a patient's electronic healthcare records (EHRs). The approach employs natural language processing and biomedical text mining to handle patient's data. The developed approach extracts relevant medical entities and builds relations between symptoms and other clinical signature modifiers. The extracted features are viewed as evaluation features. The approach utilizes such evaluation features to decide whether an applicant could gain disability benefits or not. Evaluations showed that the proposed approach accurately extracts symptoms and other laboratory marks with high F-measures (93.5-95.6%). Also, results showed an excellent deduction in assessments to approve or reject an applicant case to obtain a disability benefit.

Enhancing Disability Determination Decision Process Through Natural Language Processing

2022 ◽  
pp. 682-693
Author(s):  
Eslam Amer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Biomedical Text ◽  
Biomedical Text Mining ◽  
Disability Benefits ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Disability Determination

In this article, a new approach is introduced that makes use of the valuable information that can be extracted from a patient's electronic healthcare records (EHRs). The approach employs natural language processing and biomedical text mining to handle patient's data. The developed approach extracts relevant medical entities and builds relations between symptoms and other clinical signature modifiers. The extracted features are viewed as evaluation features. The approach utilizes such evaluation features to decide whether an applicant could gain disability benefits or not. Evaluations showed that the proposed approach accurately extracts symptoms and other laboratory marks with high F-measures (93.5-95.6%). Also, results showed an excellent deduction in assessments to approve or reject an applicant case to obtain a disability benefit.

Smith’s Golden Bough

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-252
Author(s):  
Sam Gill
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Academic Study

This chapter draws inspiration from the broad contributions of Jonathan Smith as well as the author’s in an extensive development of a new approach to a proper academic study of religion based on the philosophy and biology of human movement. The implications and advantages of this distinctive self-moving approach are discussed in terms of place, myth, ritual, comparison, body, and religion theory. The chapter presents a richly developed range of new perspectives and concepts, including aesthetic of impossibles, transduction, play, the corporeality of concepts, coherence as preferable to meaning, the essential role of metastability and nonlinearity in religion studies, gesture/posture/prosthesis as opening access to experience, religion as skill-based behavior, material/biological expansionism, biology of transcendence, and the challenges and goals to which a proper study of religion should be directed. The chapter concludes by proclaiming Jonathan Smith to be a major inspiration and resource for the creative and productive future of the study of religion.

scholarly journals The Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Child Form

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092290
Author(s):  
Utku Beyazit ◽  
Yeşim Yurdakul ◽  
Aynur Bütün Ayhan
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Emotion Control ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire

The aim of this study was to adapt the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Child Form (TEIQue-CF) into Turkish and to examine the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the form. The participants of the study consisted of 208 children between the ages of 8 and 12 who were recruited from a primary and a secondary school in Antalya, Turkey. In terms of validity, construct and criterion-related validity analyses were conducted. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed a construct of nine facets and two factors. In terms of the criterion-related validity, significant correlations ( p < .01) were found between the scores of the Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents (IECA) and the Socioemotionality, Emotion Control, and total scores of TEIQue-CF. For the examination of the reliability, the internal consistency coefficients were computed. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the total questionnaire was found to be .91. According to the results, this study provides an instrument that can be used for assessing the trait emotional intelligence of children in a Turkish sample.

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