Abstract
Emotions are intimately connected with our lives. They
are essential in motivating behaviour, for reasoning
effectively, and in facilitating interactions with other
people. Consequently, the ability to regulate the tone
and intensity of emotions is important for leading a life
of success and well-being. Intelligent computer
perception of human emotions and effective expression of
virtual emotions provide a basis for assisting emotion
regulation with technology. State-of-the-art technologies
already allow computers to recognize and imitate human
social and emotional cues accurately and in great detail.
For example, in the present work a regular looking office
chair was used to covertly measure human body movement
responses to artifical expressions of proximity and
facial cues. In general, such artificial cues from visual
agents were found to significantly affect heart, sweat
gland, and facial muscle activities, as well as
subjective experiences of emotion and attention. The
perceptual and expressive capabilities were combined in a
setup where a person regulated her or his more
spontaneous reactions by either smiling or frowning
voluntarily to a virtual humanlike character. These
results highlight the potential of future
emotion-sensitive technologies for creating supportive
and even healthy interactions between humans and
computers.
Original language | English |
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Qualification | Doctor Degree |
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Award date | 9 Dec 2011 |
Place of Publication | Tampere |
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Print ISBNs | 978-951-44-8612-8 |
Electronic ISBNs | 978-951-44-8639-5 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
MoE publication type | G5 Doctoral dissertation (article) |
Keywords
- emotion
- sociality
- affective computing
- physiology
- computer characters