Trust models have been used widely in the literature in a number of different contexts. We examine an emotive scenario where trust would be extremely useful: online dating. We explore the use of a semiring-based trust model with online dating in a social network. Introductions are facilitated by friend-of-a-friend connections in the network in a manner similar to some real world scenarios. We s...

We review a program of research that has suggested that affective states high in motivationally intensity (e.g., enthusiasm, disgust) narrow cognitive scope, whereas affective states low in motivationally intensity (e.g., joy, sadness) broaden cognitive scope. Further supporting this interpretation, indices of brain activations, derived from human electroencephalography, suggest that the motiva...

This paper explores the role of emotive responses in communicative behavior between robots and humans. Done properly, a ective communciation should be natural and intuitive for people to understand. This implies that the robot's emotive behavior should be life-like. The ability to establish and maintain a rich a ective dynamic with people has placed important constraints on our robotic implemen...

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a game interface that is based on affective interactions between a player and a computer pet. As opposed to many traditional computer games, users are not expected to manipulate control devices in a skillful manner to win the game. Instead the basic idea is to elicit certain reactions of the pet via appropriate emotive user behaviors. For improved accuracy ...

This paper explores the role of emotive responses in communicative behavior between robots and humans. Done properly, affective communciation should be natural and intuitive for people to understand. This implies that the robot’s emotive behavior should be life-like. The ability to establish and maintain a rich affective dynamic with people has placed important constraints on our robotic implem...

The traditional notion of word meaning used in natural language processing is literal or lexical meaning as used in dictionaries and lexicons. This relatively objective notion of lexical meaning is different from more subjective notions of emotive or affective meaning. Our aim is to come to grips with subjective aspects of meaning expressed in written texts, such as the attitudes or value expre...

The paper presents a support method for affect analysis of utterances in Japanese. One of the problems in the system for affect analysis developed by us before was confusing the valence of emotion types in the final stage of analysis. The cause of this problem was extracting from the utterance only the emotive expression keyword without its grammatical context. To solve this problem we enhance ...