The Emotive Tour Guide System is a mobile context-aware and spatial-aware system, including an intelligent emotional guide with personality, offering the user with an affective multimodal interaction interface.

Facial expressions are important cues to observe human emotions. The thesis studies the involuntary type of facial expressions called micro-expressions. Micro-expressions are quick facial motions, appearing in high stake and stressful situations, typically when a subject tries to hide his or her emotions. Two attributes are present fast duration and low intensity. A simple detection method is p...

AIM To examine the effects of tobacco control television advertisements with positive and negative emotional content on adult smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption. DESIGN Analysis of monthly cross-sectional surveys using generalised additive models. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS 60 000 adults aged 18 years or over living in England and interviewed in the Opinions and Lifestyle Sur...

I argue that emotive states affect perceptual processing either directly or indirectly with latencies that fall within late vision and not early vision. These effects differ from the effects of, and are subserved by different neuronal mechanisms than those that subserve, attentional effects on perception, although the two sorts of effects may interact. It follows that the emotive effects found ...

In 2007, Ford, in cooperation with Microsoft, introduced an in-car communication and entertainment system, SYNC. This system enables Bluetooth and USB connectivity for consumer phones and MP3 players and allows hands-free voice-activated control of brought-in devices. Since its initial introduction, there has been rapid growth of SYNC-enabled services, such as remote monitoring of vehicle healt...

facial expression. A disembodied voice would be a detriThis paper explores the expression of emotion in synment to a life-like quality of interaction that we would like thesized speech for an anthropomorphic robot. We have Kismet to have with people. Synchronized movements of adapted several key emotional correlates of human speech to the robot's speech synthesizer to allow the robot to speak t...

Event-related potentials (ERP) following emotive words were investigated in 22 healthy subjects with high (HD) or low (LD) depressive scores. The ERP was recorded following a visual presentation of emotive adjectives. The adjectives presented included words that subjects felt to be fit or unfit to their own character or traits, and that they perceived as positive or negative. The latency of P30...