The simulation of believable behaviors for virtual agents requires to take human factors such as emotions into account. Most computational models dealing with this issue include emotion categories in their architecture. However, determining categories to use and their influence on behavior is a difficult task. In order to address this challenge, our CORE model uses an architecture without emoti...

Risk-taking has an important role in human’s life, either positive or negative. Thus, finding a method to control or drive this in a particular way could affect individuals and communities’ health by discouraging negative risks such as reckless driving or encouraging positive risks. Emotion induction is one of the methods that can enhance or reinforce risk-taking according to the perceived emot...

The current qualitative study focused on the experience of adolescents' parents, coping with their children’s relatively early home leaving. The study was designed to evaluate whether there are distinct characteristics of parents' reaction to empty nest when the leaving home occurs under normative circumstances during adolescence. The study population included 15 participants (8 mothers, 7 fath...

We describe preliminary research on how to monitor a user’s emotions and level of engagement during the interaction with educational games. We illustrate how the user’s emotional state can be assessed through a probabilistic model that takes into account the context of the interaction, the user’s personality and a variety of user’s bodily expressions that are known to be directly influenced by ...

We present Cathexis , a distributed, computational model which offers an alternative approach to model the dynamic nature of different affective phenomena, such as emotions, moods and temperaments, and provides a flexible way of modeling their influence on the behavior of synthetic autonomous agents. The model has been implemented as part of an extensible, object-oriented framework which provid...

abstract background: solid waste generated by human activities. today, solid waste has changed a ‎lot‏ ‏with changing lifestyles. the main aim of this study ‎was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of students in ‎shiraz university of medical sciences about the recycling of solid ‎waste. methods: this analytical -descriptive cross- sectional study was ‎done on 383 students of shira...

Motivation and emotion are closely connected. Emotions can motivate behavior both by preceding it, as when a child’s anger leads to kicking a bedroom wall, or by being a consequence of our actions, as when behaviors induce feelings of happiness, joy, excitement, and pride. Emotions do more than motivate our behavior, however. Can you imagine life without them? In this chapter we explore emotion...

With the increasing environmental problems, sustainable consumption is an important consumer behavior. Therefore, it is important to investigate further the significant drivers to and barriers against sustainable consumption, in order to increase the share of sustainable consumption and understanding of consumer behavior. This dissertation identifies two gaps. The first is in understanding cons...

Abstract Emotions are highly useful to model human behavior being at the core of what makes us human. Today, people abundantly express and share emotions through social media. Technological advancements in such platforms enable sharing opinions or expressing any specific towards others have shared, mainly form textual data. This entails an interesting arena for analysis; as whether there is a d...