Citation: Kostoulas T, Chanel G, Muszynski M, Lombardo P and Pun T (2017) Films, Affective Computing and Aesthetic Experience: Identifying Emotional and Aesthetic Highlights from Multimodal Signals in a Social Setting. Front. ICT 4:11. doi: 10.3389/fict.2017.00011 Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from Multimodal signals in a soc...

This chapter reports how affective computing (in terms of detection methods and intervention approaches) is considered in e-learning systems. The goal behind is to enrich the personalized support provided in online educational settings by taking into account the influence that emotions and personality have in the learning process. The main contents of the chapter consist in the review of 26 wor...

The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in research on human emotion modeling for generating intelligent virtual agents. This paper proposes a novel personality model based on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R). Compared to the popular Big-Five-Personality Factors (Big5) model, our proposed model is more capable than Big5 on describing a variety of personalities. Co...

While enterprise social media (ESM) increasingly plays a vital role in improving teamwork in organizations, our understanding of how ESM is used by team members is still limited. Although researchers have investigated the impacts of ESM use, relatively few studies explore how individual members exhibit different extents of ESM usage behavior. Drawing upon media system dependency theory, we prop...

In five studies, the authors examined the effects on cognitive performance of coherence and incoherence between conceptual and experiential sources of affective information. The studies crossed the priming of happy and sad concepts with affective experiences. In different experiments, these included approach or avoidance actions, happy or sad feelings, and happy or sad expressive behaviors. In ...