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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Emotional States"”.
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Recognizing human emotional states from body movement
… in emotion recognition, the ability to express emotionally relevant information by various parts of the human body and the effects of various action scenarios on emotion recognition. Rigorous analysis conducted on a proprietary dataset shows that the proposed computer model is very effective at …
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The influence of emotional states on dancesport performance
… the direct relationship between performance and emotional states in DS. The aims were four: (I) to investigate the influence of anxiety and self-confidence on DS performance; (II) to examine the influence of years of experience and perceived preparedness on performance outcomes; (III) to identify …
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Conversational Agent: Developing a Model for Intelligent Agents with Transient Emotional States
<p>The demonstration of aggressive behaviors in the workplace can usually lead to negative professional consequences. However, combat-related professions may involve life and death decision making on an almost daily basis. This is one occupational area in which major duties may invoke or even …
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Understanding and Regulating Happy and Sad Emotional States in Driving Through Music
… investigated the effects of happy and sad emotional states on driving performance and explored the utilization of auditory feedback to mitigate these effects, through two studies. Study 1 examined how induced emotions and musical interventions influence driving behavior and safety, using a …
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Self-Reported Emotional States and Air Traffic Controller Operational Error Rates in Advanced Air Traffic Control Students
… make and to further enhance aviation safety. Emotional states of mind and stress level may be an aspect to further understand decision making processes. It is well known that an individual’s emotional state and current stress level can impact the quality of a decision. This study investigates …
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Maternal Employment: Investigating the Links Among Family and Job Characteristics, Emotional States, Social Supports, and Child Rearing Practices
… among maternal employment characteristics, emotional state variables, satisfactions with social supports, and child rearing practices (e.g., relying on rewards and physical punishments).
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Artificial empathy : using vector space modeling and mixed scope alignment to infer emotional states of characters in stories
… of empathy. In an effort to realize the goal of emotionally aware programs, I created a multi-corpus informed vector space model to determine the emotions evoked by individual terms. I then combined that information with the semantic parse trees produced by the Genesis Story Understanding System …
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Relationships among diet, the gastrointestinal microbiota, and mood
… among diet, GI microbiota, and the negative emotional states of depression, anxiety, and stress. The review of literature revealed that the relationships between mood and GI microbiota is under investigated in populations without physician diagnosed mood disorders, diet is rarely measured or …
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Computer response to user frustration
… side effects, some of which are strong, negative emotional states that arise in humans during interaction with computers. Frustration, confusion, anger, anxiety and similar emotional states can affect not only the interaction itself, but also productivity, learning, social relationships, and …
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Changes in Emotion Drive Perceptual Level Shifts: Global vs. Local Processing
<p>Different emotional states have been implicated in bringing about specific changes in attention, with positive emotions globalizing attention and negative emotions localizing attention (Fredrickson, 2004). Biases in attentional processes have been associated with the development and maintenance …
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Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media
… been developed for many years, and eliciting emotional experiences is an integral part of that process. Producing and editing game content in order to affect desired emotional experiences can be expensive and cumbersome to developers. This paper presents a study intended to show that such …
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A study of how emotional design of a digital task management tool impacts individual productivity
… in perception and decision making. The use of emotional design in multimedia learning tools has been previously studied and it has been shown that positive emotions facilitate learning by reducing task difficulty and increasing motivation. This study aims to apply emotional design to …
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"I don't mind people hugging me when I'm happy": autistic individuals' experience of emotions on their sensory world: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… Current literature explored the social, emotional, and physical consequences of unusual sensory experiences on the lives of autistic individuals and gave an insight into the needs of this population. Literature also suggested a possible effect of emotional states on the sensory …
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Does a gift in a captive service make me feel better? Examining gift giving in uncertain conditions that influence emotions and firm performance.
… gift types and uncertainty levels influence emotional states and firm performance indicators. The findings in this paper confirm that relevant gifts have positive, main effects on emotional states psychological comfort, positive re-interpretation coping, and firm performance indicators. …
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Best Practice in Screening and Treatment of Preschool Childhood Major Depressive Disorder
… necesssry to express and self-regulate variable emotional states. The recommendations included a measure for screening (Preschool Feelings Checklist) and a treatment protocol (Incredible Years).</p>
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Software support for experience sampling
… design is becoming more reliant on user emotional states to improve usability, adapt to the user’s state, and allow greater expressiveness. Historically, usability has relied on performance metrics for evaluation, but user experience, with an emphasis on aesthetics and emotions, has …
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Psychophysiological measures of mental effort and emotion within user research
… consumer level hardware is used to measure the emotional states of workplace employees. The hardware captured electrodermal activity and heart rate data from participants while they also submitted their emotional states as training data. These data were used to build a general emotion detection …
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A Bayesian theory of mind approach to nonverbal communication for human-robot interactions : a computational formulation of intentional inference and belief manipulation
… A robot's ability to express and recognize the emotional states of people through these nonverbal channels is at the core of artificial social intelligence. The purpose of this thesis is to define a computational framework to nonverbal communication for human-robot interactions. We address both …
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The moral of the story Is... extract a generalizable lesson from a fable through emotional explanation and alignment with a past experience
… moral by first interpreting both stories on an emotional level. By explaining the emotional states and their transitions, the system can identify the moral challenge. Then, MAXIM aligns the stories by emotional states to abstract away story-specific details. In developing MAXIM, I have distilled …
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