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Showing 1 to 20 of 2588 for “"affective"”.
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Affective website design
Although, today, website design still contains many variable design elements which strongly influence its design outcome, like browser usage, platforms, user preferences, window size, connection speed, computer speed, colour support, software support, and font support, the original design idea …
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Affective synthetic characters
We have long wanted to create artifacts that resemble us: artifacts that not only look like us, but act, think and feel like us, with which we can have sympathy and empathy. In particular, the purpose of this thesis work is twofold: One is to understand animal behavior, the role of the motivation …
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Defining Affective Working Memory
… emotions. The crux of the evidence for affective WM is the finding of differential selective interference effects on the maintenance of negative emotions compared to the maintenance of visuospatial information (Mikels & Reuter-Lorenz, in press). This study sought to replicate and extend …
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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
… that have the capacity to sig- nal the speaker’s affective states, i.e., to display the speaker’s feelings with respect to a certain stimulus. For this reason, swear words are often called expressives. Which linguistic mechanisms allow swear words display affective states, and, more importantly, …
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Means-to-goals affective transference
… insight regarding the boundary conditions for affective transference within goal systems. Altogether, the current research provides important theoretical insight regarding goal systems theory, and it offers practical applications to education, business management, and public policy.
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Affective Design In Technical Communication
… consider broader human needs and capabilities. Affective design is an umbrella term for research and practice being conducted in diverse domains, all with the common thread of integrating emotional aspects of use into the creation of information products. This thesis provides a review of the …
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Affective Modulation of Executive Control
… control. How do executive processes act on affective representations? Are emotional representations less amenable to control? Do distinct processes or neural networks govern their control? The present dissertation addresses these questions by investigating the neural systems and cognitive …
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Continual Learning for Affective Robotics
… need to actively participate in the human ‘affective loop’, sensing and interpreting human socio-emotional behaviours while also learning to respond in a manner that fosters their social and emotional wellbeing. Embedding affective robots with learning mechanisms that enable such a robust …
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Social and affective machine learning
… methods that improve the social and affective capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), through social learning both from humans and from other AI agents. First, I show how AI agents can learn from the causal influence of their actions on other agents, leading to enhanced …
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Affective learning companions : strategies for empathetic agents with real-time multimodal affective sensing to foster meta-cognitive and meta-affective approaches to learning, motivation, and perseverance
This thesis has developed an affective agent research platform that advances the architecture of relational agents and intelligent tutoring systems. The system realizes non-invasive multimodal real-time sensing of elements of user's affective state and couples this ability with an agent capable of …
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Explaining Implicit and Explicit Affective Linkages in IT Teams: Facial Recognition, Emotional Intelligence, and Affective Tone
… TEI, as well as psychometric measures of team affective tone results show causal affective linkages in the emotional convergence model. These results suggest that combined physiological and psychometric measures of team emotion behavior provide explanatory power for these linkages in teams …
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Learning disability survey : the affective domain
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Learning disability survey : the affective domain
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Affective Visualization in Virtual Reality Systems
… a virtual environment according to the user’s affective state. Therefore, this research project’s main objective is to understand how to develop a VR system that adapts automatically to the user’s affective state. A reference implementation of a neurofeedback VR experience for training …
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Affective risk perception in automotive environments
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Affective Triggers in Defoe's Moll Flanders
… with an explanation of how glamour is an affective trigger, this section analyzes how Moll's search for the trappings of glamour implicates her in both mimicry and deception. Building on these ideas, the next section analyzes how Moll monetizes men in order to gain a respectable social …
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The Affective Consequences of Grade Retention.
… was to investigate students’ perceptions of the affective consequences of grade retention and to uncover possible social and academic effects of grade retention on students’ subsequent elementary school experience. The participants were kindergarten through eighth grade students from a county in …
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