Emotion-Oriented Systems

by Petta, Paolo; Pelachaud, Catherine; Cowie, Roddy

• ISBN13: 9783642151835
• ISBN10: 3642151833
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-29
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Emotion pervades human life in general, and human communication in particular, and this sets information technology a challenge. Traditionally, IT has focused on allowing people to accomplish practical tasks efficiently, setting emotion to one side. That was acceptable when technology was a small part of life, but as technology and life become increasingly interwoven we can no longer ask people to suspend their emotional nature and habits when they interact with technology. The European Commission funded a series of related research projects on emotion and computing, culminating in the HUMAINE project which brought together leading academic researchers from the many related disciplines. This book grew out of that project, and its chapters are arranged according to its working areas: theories and models; signals to signs; data and databases; emotion in interaction; emotion in cognition and action; persuasion and communication; usability; and ethics and good practice.The fundamental aim of the book is to offer researchers an overview of the related areas, sufficient for them to do credible work on affective or emotion-oriented computing. The book serves as an academically sound introduction to the range of disciplines involved ' technical, empirical and conceptual ' and will be of value to researchers in the areas of artificial intelligence, psychology, cognition and user'”machine interaction.

Table of Contents

"Theories and Models" of Emotion
Editorial: "Theories and Models" of Emotion	p. 3
Emotion: Concepts and Definitions	p. 9
Emotions in Social Interactions: Unfolding Emotional Experience	p. 31
Biological and Computational Constraints to Psychological Modelling of Emotion	p. 47
Signals to Signs
Editorial: "Signals to Signs"-Feature Extraction, Recognition, and Multimodal Fusion	p. 65
The Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Speech	p. 71
Image and Video Processing for Affective Applications	p. 101
Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Low-Level Cues	p. 115
Physiological Signals and Their Use in Augmenting Emotion Recognition for Human-Machine Interaction	p. 133
Data and Databases
Editorial: "Data and Databases"	p. 163
Principles and History	p. 167
Issues in Data Collection	p. 197
Issues in Data Labelling	p. 213
The Humaine Database	p. 243
Emotion in Interaction
Editorial: "Emotion in Interaction"	p. 287
Fundamentals of Agent Perception and Attention Modelling	p. 293
Generating Listening Behaviour	p. 321
Coordinating the Generation of Signs in Multiple Modalities in an Affective Agent	p. 349
Representing Emotions and Related States in Technological Systems	p. 369
Embodied Conversational Characters: Representation Formats for Multimodal Communicative Behaviours	p. 389
Emotion in Cognition and Action
Overview of Emotion in Cognition and Action	p. 419
A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios	p. 427
Novelty Processing and Emotion: Conceptual Developments, Empirical Findings and Virtual Environments	p. 441
Cognitive Evaluations and Intuitive Appraisals: Can Emotion Models Handle Them Both?	p. 459
Anticipation and Emotion	p. 483
Socially Situated Affective Systems	p. 501
Persuasion and Communication
Editorial: "Persuasion and Communication"	p. 523
Emotion in Persuasion from a Persuader's Perspective: A True Marriage Between Cognition and Affect	p. 527
Approaches to Verbal Persuasion in Intelligent User Interfaces	p. 559
Non-verbal Persuasion and Communication in an Affective Agent	p. 585
Computational Humour	p. 609
Usability
Editorial: "Usability"	p. 637
The Design and Evaluation Process	p. 641
Understanding Users and Their Situation	p. 657
Generating Ideas and Building Prototypes	p. 671
Evaluation of Affective Interactive Applications	p. 687
Ethics and Good Practice
Editorial: 'Ethics and Good Practice'-Computers and Forbidden Places: Where Machines May and May Not Go	p. 707
Principalism: A Method for the Ethics of Emotion-Oriented Machines	p. 713
The Ethical Distinctiveness of Emotion-Oriented Technology: Four Long-Term Issues	p. 725
Emotion-Oriented Systems and the Autonomy of Persons	p. 735
Ethics in Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Challenges for an Ethics Committee	p. 753
Glossary	p. 769
Index	p. 781
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