Harmony is a concept that plays a pivotal role throughout Chinese history (Li, 2008 ) as much as love does in Christianity. Also similar to love in Christianity, much good as well as evil has been done in the name of harmony. It is important therefore to delineate the basic structure of this root metaphor in order to differentiate between optimal and suboptimal versions of harmony. This chapter...

People tend to align with the emotional state of person that is talking them (the observed). Similarly, while processing information consumers can also experience this contagion. Emotional contagion activate in those who process observer) similar responses autonomic nervous system and neural as create such observed), triggering a certain level arousal. Neuroscience enables researchers study by ...

In this paper a computational model for believable adaptable characters is presented, which takes into account several psychological theories: five factors model of personality[1], the pleasure arousal dominance[2] and the social cognitive factors[3] to create a computation model able to process emotionally coded events in input, alter the character’s mood, the memory associate with the set of ...

This research presents a mobile augmented reality (MAR) travel guide, named CorfuAR, which supports personalized recommendations. We report the development process and devise a theoretical model that explores the adoption of MAR applications through their emotional impact. A field study on Corfu visitors (n=105) shows that the functional properties of CorfuAR evoke feelings of pleasure and arou...

Computer systems are designed and used by humans. And human being is characterized, among other things, by emotions. Giving this fact, the process of designing and developing computer systems is, like any other facet in our lives, driven by emotions. Requirements engineering is one of the main phases in software development. In Requirements engineering, several tasks include acceptance and nego...

A number of recent studies have focused on the conceptualized expression of emotions as a three-dimensional space. This paper proposes a new approach to emotion recognition, making use of two of the emotional dimensions and their relationship with different kinds of features. The main idea consists in associating prosodic features, derived from pitch, loudness, and duration, with the activation...

In this paper is proposed the integration of personality, emotion and mood aspects for a group of participants in a decision-making negotiation process. The aim is to simulate the participant behavior in that scenario. The personality is modeled through the OCEAN five-factor model of personality (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Negative emotionality). The emotion mo...

Dimensions of the meaning attributed to facial expressions of emotion were studied in preschoolers (nineteen 4-year-olds, twenty-one 3-year-olds, and thirty-eight 2-year-olds) plus thirty adults. Subjects indicated the similarity or dissimilarity between different emotions by placing photographs of emotional facial expressions into preordained numbers of groups. For each age group, multidimensi...

OBJECTIVE This study examined modulation of trigeminal pain/nociception by 2 supraspinal mechanisms: emotional controls of nociception and diffuse noxious inhibitory controls. BACKGROUND Prior research suggests emotional picture viewing (emotional controls) and tonic noxious stimuli (diffuse noxious inhibitory controls) engage supraspinal mechanisms to modulate pain and nociceptive processes....

Research on emotional perception and learning indicates appetitive cues engage nucleus accumbens (NAc) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), whereas amygdala activity is modulated by the emotional intensity of appetitive and aversive cues. This study sought to determine patterns of functional activation and connectivity among these regions during narrative emotional imagery. Using event-related ...