Integrating emotional agent into virtual learning environment is a flourishing research topic to assist the pedagogical applications. However, most of existing emotional agents still lack of a straightforward and understandable computational strategy for both educational experts and developers. In this paper, we integrate an emotional agent into a pedagogical project which uses OCC-based rules ...

will find in it great stress laid on emotional aspects and the emotional development of subnormal children, and guidance on what to work for and how to interpret behaviour. Direct help based on sound lines which are fully discussed, is given on ways in which a teacher can arouse the interest of his pupils and can help them to overcome their many minor handicaps which mount up and may become sev...

We describe a different approach to robotics in which emotions are at center-stage playing a much larger role than just that of facilitating emotional expression. Drawing inspiration from work in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Ethology, we have developed a computational framework that captures important aspects of emotional processing and integrates these with other models of perception, attenti...

Emotional speech synthesis is an important part of the puzzle on the long way to human-like artificial human-machine interaction. During the way, lots of stations like emotional audio messages or believable characters in gaming will be reached. This chapter discusses technical aspects of emotional speech synthesis, shows practical application and highlights new developments concerning the reali...

Descriptive and exploratory study with the objective of knowing feelings and emotional reactions of women after the diagnosis of diabetes. Data were collected at a primary health care unit in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil, through a semi-structured interview. Thematic content analysis was used for interpreting the data. The results showed that women's behavior after the diagnosis of diabetes was as...

Recent studies have shown that most of our purchasing choices and decisions are the result of a careful analysis of the advantages and disadvantages and of affective and emotional aspects. Psychological literature recognizes that the emotional conditions are always present and influence every stage of decision-making in purchasing process. Consumers establish with company brands an overall emot...

Research on emotional experiences across cultures is reviewed from a cultural psychological perspective. Psychometric approaches to evaluating the structure of emotions has consistently replicated two broad dimensions (positive and negative affect) in several countries. Nevertheless, there are cultural differences in other aspects of emotional experience such as the relation between positive an...

Early maladaptive schemata are patterns or profound themes which include memories, excitements, cognitions and physical emotions which are formed in childhood or adolescence, sustain in journey of life. This study aimed to investigate relationship between early maladaptive schemas and safe communications in students. 226 married students (113 women and 113 men) in 23-33 age range were selected ...