Introduction. Previous search query analysis studies demonstrated that emotional perceptions and needs tend not to be sufficiently reflected in image queries. To provide a better understanding of the emotional attributes of an image, this study explored and compared such attributes obtained from related tasks. Method. This study analysed attributes of an image through sorting, describing and se...

Interactive virtual characters are expected to lead to an intuitive interaction via multiple communicative modalities such as the expression of emotions. Generating facial expressions that are consistent with the interaction context is a challenge. This paper presents our interactive facial animation system based on the Component Process Model, generating facial signs of appraisal during a real...

This paper concerns the bimodal transmission of emotive speech and describes how the expression of joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and fear, leads to visual and acoustic target modifications in some Italian phonemes. Current knowledge on the audio-visual transmission of emotive speech traditionally concerns global prosodic and intonational characteristics of speech and facial configurat...

Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understandable but also believable can be greatly aided by knowledge of which facial motions are perceptually necessary and sufficient for clear and believable conversational facial expressions. Here, we recorded several core co...

This paper investigates the social behaviour of an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) with PRE-ThINK architecture with the help of typical working student’s life scenario modeling. Тhe program system and the PRE-ThINK architecture, adapted for this scenario, are proposed, and their components are considered. The dynamics of the decision making process in problem situations caused by the implementa...

Prosody conveys information about the emotional state of the speaker. In this study we test whether listeners are able to detect different levels in the emotional state of the speaker based on prosodic features such as intonation, speech rate and intensity. We ran a perception experiment in which we ask Swiss German and Chinese listeners to recognize the intended emotions that the professional ...

This paper concerns the addition of an affective component to Fasih, one of the first Malay Textto-Speech systems developed by MIMOS Berhad. The goal is to introduce a new method of incorporating emotions to Fasih by building an emotions filter that is template-driven. The templates are diphone-based emotional templates that can portray four types of emotions, i.e. anger, sadness, happiness and...

This paper describes how the visual and acoustic characteristics of some Italian phones (/’a/, /b/, /v/) are modified in emotive speech by the expression of joy, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and fear. In this research we specifically analyze the interaction between labial configurations, peculiar to each emotion, and the articulatory lip movements of the Italian vowel /’a/ and consonants ...

The present paper proposes a system both able to classify a facial expression in one of the six universal categories namely: (Joy, Disgust, Anger, Sadness, Fear and Surprise) and to assign to each expression its intensity in the range: (High, Medium and Low). This is carried out in two independent and parallel processes. Permanent and transient facial features are detected from still images and...

BACKGROUND The relationships between positive and negative emotional experience and physical and psychological well-being have been well-documented. The present study examines the prospective positive relationship between concurrent positive and negative emotional experience and psychological well-being in the context of psychotherapy. METHODS 47 adults undergoing psychotherapy completed meas...