An emotion-processing system based on fuzzy inference and its subjective observations

AbstractThe history of the development of emotion psychology, especially the two theories concerning mixed emotions adopted in this research, is briefly explained. Also discussed are the image codes linked to the mixed emotional words and the way to realize a mechanism using fuzzy inference, in which the internal emotion of a simulated person reacts on a sequence of inputted terms and evokes some emotional change. It is shown that the fuzzy inference technique is very useful and applicable even to such a flexible human life system as emotion.In the next section, the relevant part of the theory for the subjective observation model (Yanaru et al. [1]) to the application of the emotion-processing system is briefly explained. The construction methodology of the system, which has two functions, is described; one function is that the evoked emotion is transitive depending on the observation, and the other is that the aggregated emotion by the several subjective observations settles to the objective emotion.In conclusion, some attractive results obtained from the simulated emotion-processing system are shown: what kinds of emotions are evoked and how the emotional transition is done by subjective observations, when a poem is used for the input signal