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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.
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Setchi, R., Lagos, N., Froud, D. (2007). Computational Imagination: Research Agenda. In: Orgun, M.A., Thornton, J. (eds) AI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76928-6_40
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