Computational imagination: research agenda

  • Authors:

  • Rossitza Setchi;Nikolaos Lagos;Danny Froud

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff, UK;School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff, UK;IAS Lab, University of West of England, Bristol, UK

  • Venue:
  • AI'07 Proceedings of the 20th Australian joint conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to promote a new research area named Computational Imagination, which is defined as the science of modeling human imagination by creating artificial agents with intelligence, emotions and imagination. The new discipline aims to (i) study the interplay between cognition, emotion and imagery, (ii) analyze the way perceptions, emotions, prior knowledge and context influence imagination, and (iii) design agents capable of forming concepts and images of something that is neither perceived nor sensed as real, and of dealing with the reality by using the creative power of their imagination. The paper outlines some of the most challenging and intriguing research questions, and directions for further research.