Emotion recognition plays an important role in several applications, such as human computer interaction and understanding affective state of users in certain tasks, e.g., within a learning process, monitoring of elderly, interactive entertainment etc. It may be based upon several modalities, e.g., by analyzing facial expressions and/or speech, using electroencephalograms, electrocardiograms etc...

Describing relationships between speech and emotion depends on identifying appropriate ways of describing the emotional states that speech conveys. Several forms of description are potentially relevant. The most familiar have obvious shortcomings, and alternatives urgently need to be explored.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between emotional suppression and psychological distress in breast cancer patients after surgery. We examined this relationship using questionnaires at the first visit to the breast cancer outpatient clinic at our hospital and after surgery, as well as interviews after surgery. METHODS A total of 31 breast cancer patients wer...

The goal of this study is to elucidate differences in speakers’ emotional expressions in behavioral and autonomic responses. Verbal and non-verbal emotional behaviors of interlocutors were recorded during two types of dialogs (competitive and cooperative). Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity (heart rate and skin conductance level) was also recorded as an internal measure of emotional reacti...

In this paper we discuss some of the relations between cognition and emotion as exemplified by a particular type of agent architecture, the CogAff agent architecture. We outline a strategy for analysing cognitive and emotional states of agents along with the processes they can support, which effectively views cognitive and emotional states as architecture-dependent. We demonstrate this architec...

Leff has concluded from his analysis of the JPSS Study that the emotions of anxiety, depression and irritability are poorly discriminated amongst the population using non-Indo-European languages. The present author after analyzing similar data from the ICMR Multicentred Collaborative Study of Factors Associated with the Course and outcome of Schizophrenia that the Tamil population using Tamil, ...