From Wikipedia:
UK – Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.

FR – La cybernétique est une modélisation de l’échange, par l’étude de l’information et des principes d’interaction. Elle peut ainsi être définie comme la science des systèmes autorégulés, qui ne s’intéresse pas aux composantes, mais à leurs interactions, où seul est pris en compte leur comportement global. Ce domaine sera plus tard désigné comme « la science des analogies maîtrisées entre organismes et machines » par Jean-Pierre Dupuy en 1994.

Other source:
FR – La cybernétique est une science du contrôle des systèmes, vivants ou non-vivants, fondée en 1948 par le mathématicien américain Norbert Wiener.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybern%C3%A9tique#cite_note-0
http://www.syti.net/Cybernetics.html

In one Sentence:
The Cognitive Science brings together many fields who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind.

From Wikipedia (Obviously):
UK – Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of how information concerning faculties such as perception, language, reasoning, and emotion, is represented and transformed in a (human or other animal) nervous system or machine (e.g., computer). It consists of multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, learning sciences, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and education.[1]

FR – Les sciences cognitives regroupent un ensemble de disciplines scientifiques dédiées à l’étude et la compréhension des mécanismes de la pensée humaine, animale ou artificielle, et plus généralement de tout système cognitif, c’est-à-dire tout système complexe de traitement de l’information capable d’acquérir, conserver, utiliser et transmettre des connaissances. Les sciences cognitives reposent donc sur l’étude et la modélisation de phénomènes aussi divers que la perception, l’intelligence, le langage, le calcul, le raisonnement ou même la conscience. En tant que domaine interdisciplinaire, les sciences cognitives utilisent conjointement des données issues d’une multitude de branches de la science et de l’ingénierie, en particulier : la linguistique, l’anthropologie, la psychologie, les neurosciences, la philosophie, l’intelligence artificielle.

Sources:
http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciences_cognitives

Sensible VS sensitive: Sensitivity is the degree of response of a receiver or an instrument to an incoming signal. Sensibility is the ability to feel or perceive.
Ex: A sensitive person may be easily offended by an off-color joke, but without sensibility, that same person may be quite unsympathetic to the sufferings of war victims in Iraq.
Link: http://www.englishforums.com/English/SensitivityVsSensibility/cnkbd/post.htm

Taxonomy: a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin, can be nowadays used in different field as sciences of communication etc.
In french: http://wiki.univ-paris5.fr/wiki/Taxinomie

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/67192.htm

Source: Swiss Design Network. (2010) Negotiating Futures – Design Fiction, 6th Swiss Design Network Conference 2010. Basel, Swiss Design Network

Betti Markento (2010) – Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, University of the Arts. London. b.markento@csm.arts.ac.uk
Contagious Affectivity – The Management of Emotion in Late Capitalist Design

References
• First International Conference on Design and Emotion (Delft University of Technology) (1999)
• The Design and Emotion Society (founded in 1999)
• PrEmo (Product Emotion Measurement)

Definitions (Betti Markento 2010)
• Affect / Emotion

• Affect: “is what gives us the capacity to discern and make judgements for our survival (Norman 2004) […] Affect and experience are used interchangeably, underlying the fact that any product experience is inherently affective (Desmet and Hekkert 2007)”
• Emotion: “is ‘the conscious experience of affect, complete with attribution of its cause and identification of its object’ (Norman 2004, 11).”

• Affect

• “engage body and mind, reason and passions. They have to do with ‘both our power to affect the world around us and our power to be affected by it’ (Hardt, 2007 ix).”
• “while affections are states of the body (effect of a body upon an other), affects are variations of the power of the body (effects of a body upon a duration) (Spinoza).”
• “is ‘the trace of one body upon another’ (DELEUZE 1988, 138)” and “affects are also the ensuing variations in power from one state to another. […] power and affectivity are strictly linked. Power is ‘what opens up the capacity for being affected to the greatest number of things’ (DELEUZE 1988, 71).”
• “are‘the modification of the body by which the power of action of the body is increased or diminished, aided or restrained’ (Spinoza EIIIDef3: 83).”
• “while emotion is a subjective, qualified, ‘the socio-linguistic fixing’ (Massumi 2002, 28) of a personal experience, affect is instead unqualified, note recognizable or measurable.”

• Feelings / Emotion (Ahmed, Antonio Damasio)

• “Emotions play out in the theatre of the body, feelings play out in the theatre of the mind (Antonio Damasio 2003, 28). While emotions are actions or movements, feelings are always hidden”

Bibliography
• Norman, D. (2004) Emotional Design. New York, Basic Books
• Desmet, P.M.A. and Hekkert, O. (2007) Framework of product experience. International Journal of Design, 1(1), 57-66
• Hardt, M. (2007) “Foreword: what affects are good for”, in Clough P. The Affective Turn. Theorizing the Social. Durham & London, Duke University Press, ix-xiii
• Deleuze, G. (1988) Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. San Francisco, City Lights Books
• (Spinoza EIIIDef3: 83) ??
• Massumi, B (2002) Parables for the Virtual. Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham & London, Duke University Press
• Ahmed, S. (2004) The Cultural Politics of Emotion Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
• Damasion, A. (2003) Looking for Spinoza. Joy Sorrow and the Feeling Brain. London Heinemann

Key words
• constitution of subjectivity
• Emotion-driven design
• intensities and affect
• Core affect theory
• Subjective feelings, behavioural reactions, expressive and psychological reactions
• Emotion, feeling, affects, passions, affections