[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of musical tempo on physiological, affective, and perceptual responses as well as the performance of self-selected walking pace. [Subjects] The study included 28 adult women between 29 and 51 years old. [Methods] The subjects were divided into three groups: no musical stimulation group (control), and 90 and 140 beats per minute musical tempo groups....

The meaning that persons attribute to environments is divided into perceptualcognitive meaning and affective meaning. Affective meaning is then conceptualized as a two-dimensional bipolar space that can be denned by eight variables falling in the following circular order around the perimeter: pleasant (arbitrarily set at 0°), exciting (45°), arousing (90°), distressing (135°), unpleasant (180°)...

46 Abstract This present study was designed to investigate the cognitive-affective model of sport consumer satisfaction using a periodically occurring sporting event in Taiwan. Literature suggested that affective responses can be either mediators or independent variables in the cognitive satisfaction model. In the current study, 366 usable questionnaires were collected with convenience sampling...

Trust (integrity, benevolence, and ability) is the central dimension of e-commerce systems adoption. Based on customer selfservice systems and human–computer interaction logics, affective variables are important research issues to fully understand the relationship between information systems development and e-trust. In this paper, the effects of the perceived Web quality with service contents o...

Affective computing aims at the detection of users' mental states, in particular, emotions and dispositions during human-computer interactions. Detection can be achieved by measuring multimodal signals, namely, speech, facial expressions and/or psychobiology. Over the past years, one major approach was to identify the best features for each signal using different classification methods. Althoug...

Reading is not only "cold" information processing, but involves affective and aesthetic processes that go far beyond what current models of word recognition, sentence processing, or text comprehension can explain. To investigate such "hot" reading processes, standardized instruments that quantify both psycholinguistic and emotional variables at the sublexical, lexical, inter-, and supralexical ...

Affective Computing has always aimed to answer the question: which measurement is most suitable to predict the subject’s affective state? Many experiments have been devised to evaluate the relationships among three types of variables (the affective triad): stimuli, self-reports, and measurements. Being the real affective state hidden, researchers have faced this question by looking for the meas...

This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ burnout and their affective construct. For this purpose, 384 ELT teachers in different language institutes and schools in Mashhad participated in this study. There were both male (159) and female (225) teachers with different experiences and in different ages. Two instruments were given to teachers and they were asked to complete and gi...