As part of a surge in technologies with so-called ‘artificial emotional intelligence’, robotics engineers and Buddhist monks Japan have developed an android bodhisattva to deliver teachings at popular Zen temple. Like many recent robots Japan, the is designed impact visitors’ feelings. For this reason, it can be called ‘technology affect’. In order communicate how new affective are facilitating...

In William Friedkin's iconic horror film The Exorcist (1973), an adolescent girl, Regan MacNeil, is possessed by evil demon that makes her act in increasingly erratic and immoral ways. She starts to swear urinates on the floor at a house party. Later, she violates herself with cross, violently attacks mother, goes murder two people: friend of Catholic priest come save soul. But it not just Rega...

The paper presents a research on the multimodal communication of teachers in the classroom. The “musical score”, a procedure for the analysis of multimodal communication, is used to analyse aspects of the signals produced and of the meanings conveyed by teachers while interacting with their pupils, by focusing not only on affective and interactional aspects, but also on the cognitive effects of...