A Greek Emotional Speech Database has been recorded and analyzed. The scope of this work is to study through this database the prosodical phenomena as a function of each emotional state and the application to a text to speech synthesis system. Our database contains recordings of a female professional actress. We used an actress for this task because in order to faithfully simulate a number of e...

Identification of emotional expressions of a Talking Head (TH) were evaluated and compared to that of natural faces. In addition, the effect of static (pictures) and dynamic (video sequences) stimuli was studied. Natural stimuli consisted of six basic emotional expressions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise). Two expression sets were selected from both Ekman-Friesen facial a...

The majority of research on emotion and moral decisionmaking has focused on the intrapersonal effects of emotion. However, witnessing and displaying emotional expressions is also known to play a significant role in the facilitation and coordination of our social interactions. In this work, we hypothesize that interpersonal emotions effect moral appraisals by prioritizing different moral concern...

We have performed a quantitative study in order to find out the emotional spectrum of Virtual Storytelling in comparison with movies, taking into consideration the Russell’s emotional circumplex model. Via internet forums we gathered videogames that people considered to be capable of eliciting each of the seven basic emotions, distributed around the circumplex. From the 200 videogames collected...

Previous studies have suggested that there are cultural differences in display rules and decoding rules of the emotions. In this study, we examined the cultural differences in the multisensory display rules of the six basic emotions (happiness, anger, disgust, sadness, fear and surprise) and the six complex emotions (interest, contempt, embarrassment, shame, guilt, and envy) between Japanese an...

The affections of a person can be expressed by non-verbal methods such as facial expressions, gestures, postures and expressions from eyes. While implicit language like emotional metaphor is also an important way to express one’s affections. Different kinds of emotional metaphors in Chinese and their characteristics are proposed, including happiness, sadness, anger, fear and surprise. Experimen...

We investigated the relationship between movement and conveying emotion with moving images. We developed a software system for generating moving images in which movement is specified with moving effects consisting of a few elements. We prepared eight movements from the Vertex Noise moving effect, which consists of the three elements of speed, density, and strength, by giving each element differ...