In an ambience designed to adapt to the user’s affective state, pervasive technology should be able to decipher unobtrusively his underlying mood. Great effort has been devoted to automatic punctual emotion recognition from visual input. Conversely, little has been done to recognize longer-lasting affective states, such as mood. Taking for granted the effectiveness of emotion recognition algori...

Do people with a high score on a scale for eating in response to negative emotions also show high food intake in response to positive emotions? We studied these effects in 60 female students that were preselected on the basis of extreme high or low scores on an emotional eating questionnaire. Using a between subject design we experimentally tested the difference in food intake following a mood ...

Affect-adaptive systems mutate their behavior according to the user’s affective state. In many cases, such affective state is to be detected in a nonobtrusive way, i.e. through sensing that does not require the user to provide the system explicit input, e.g., video sensors. However, user affect recognition from video is frequently tuned to detect instantaneous emotional states, rather than long...

A participants ́ sense of "being there" in a mediated experience is determined by a variety of characteristics or components. The EMMA Project (IST-2001-39192) is interested in analyzing the relationships between presence and emotions, especially for some Virtual Reality applications, such as mental health (both for promotion and treatment goals). This research will help to understand better the...

Understanding emotional disorders requires understanding the evolutionary origins and functions of normal emotions. They are special states, shaped by natural selection to adjust various aspects of the organism in ways that have tended to give a selective advantage in the face of the adaptive challenges characteristic of a particular kind of situation. They are designed to maximize reproductive...

Overeating may be a consequence of the suppression of negative emotions, by depleting self-control resources. This experiment investigated whether (a) there is a causal relationship between the suppression of negative emotions, negative mood, and overeating in people with binge eating disorder (BED) and whether (b) this relationship is increased in depressed people with BED. Sixty-six women wit...

We report the negative emotional state as pessimistic mood of a case with narcissistic personality disorder during the period of narcissistic decompensation. In addition, we identified the clinical differences between pessimistic mood and depressive disorder. An 28-year-old unmarried woman experienced herself, her life and the external object as futile and disappointing after repeated failure t...

Emotional eaters are often presumed to eat in response to negative emotions, while positive emotions have been largely neglected. The current study induced a positive, negative, or neutral mood in a student sample and subsequently measured food intake. In addition, the relation between caloric intake and mood improvement was assessed. It was expected that emotional eaters would consume more foo...

In this study we build a mood recognition system using EEG signal of Song Induced activity. In this we have analyzed alpha EEG powers related to left hemisphere, right hemisphere regions of brains. This has given the significance of different brain region related to emotions. This study successfully achieves the goal to design a system which offers offline mood recognition system. In this study...