Research Interests: Haptic Medicine, Mental State, Common
Sense Reasoning, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Large Scale Data
Analysis
New AI
Agent
Architectures and Languages Driven by Cognitive and Neuro Science
- EM-1: Agent Architecture for Integrated Emotion and Logic Driven
Rule Based Reasoning Systems - The First Affective Reasoning Software
Agent ( Aaron Sloan's original paper long ago was the first to realize
the importance of affect in robots)
- EM-2: Modified EM-1 for compassion based on multi-agent mental
state and affective inference
- EOP: Emotion Oriented Programming Language - Representation
and Reasoning With Emotional Aspects of Mental State - The First Agent
Language for Representing and
Reasoning
- Human-Level AI Requires
Compassionate Intelligence AAAI-08 Workshop
on Meta-Cognition
- Open Heart Common
Sense - A social data base collecting emotional common sense,
collaborative SpinOff of the MIT Open Mind Project
Applications
- Semantic Representation of User History Based on
Multi-Format User Log
- Representing and Reasoning With Emotional Content from Text
Files
- Common Sense for Computers That Reason With Social and
Emotional Intelligence
- Cataloging Emotional Concepts About Multi-Media Data
Technologies
- Rule Based Common Sense Affective Reasoning
- ETMS - Emotional Truth Maintenance System
Conventional AI
Architectures
and Languages Driven by Search Symbol Hypothesis
BBRL: Belief Based
Collaborative System for Common Sense Reasoning on Data Integration
Applications
PackRats: Multi-Agent Collaborative System for Archiving and Filtering
Digital Persona from Public, Private Databases
NETSEA: Multi-Agent Collaborative Data Analysis and Feature Extraction
for Large Data Sets
Technologies
Intelligent Agents {Single and Multi-Agent Systems,
Task, Result Sharing and Hybrid}
Multi-Agent Test Environments (C, CSH)
Rule Based Common Sense Reasoning (Written in LISP, C)
Single Agent and Multi-Agent Truth Maintence
Psychohaptics/Psychophysiology
and Health Education
Methods
Driven by the Latest Developments in Cognitive Neuroscience and Health
Psychology
Psychohaptics/Psychophysiology
Haptic Medicine
Global
Medicine - A Paper on Mult-Cultural Healthcare Options (See Vaden,
Stanford Student Health for Living Example)
Presentation
"Happiness and Brain Plasticity" for Kaiser Permanente and American
Stroke Association
Cancer
and Psychohaptics
Early Release of Stem Cell
Transplant Patients at Stanford Hospital
A Film About Mental State and Psychohaptics in
Cardiology Ward at Stanford Medical Center
Self Help Psychohaptics for Nursing Stress in Remote Regions of Uganda
Health
Education
Video Centered Psychohaptic Instruction for
Mood Stabilization, Spine and Gland Health
Video Centered Psychohaptic Instruction for Prevention and
Management of Chronic Conditions
Web Based Psychohaptic Instruction for Mood Stabilization
Awards
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of DAI 1989
National Academy of Science Research Associate 1992-1995
Stanford Medical School and Palto Alto Veterans Associate Research
Fellow 1995-1996
National Library of Medicine Research Fellowship
2005-2006
Service
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Co-Chair
for Affective Computing Technical Committee
2009 International
Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Third
International Conference on Evidence Based CAM for Cancer, Workshop
on Haptic Medicine
Useful links
The Stanford
home page.
The Computer
Science
Department home page.
Cindy Mason
cmason@steam.stanford.edu