Emotions
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Friday, December 5th, 2008I must confess, I am somewhat confused by the short description of the paper published by Diana Arellano, Javier Varona and Francisco J. Perales. Generation and visualization of emotional states in virtual characters in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, volume 19, issue 3-4, pp. 259-270, 2008.
A team of researchers from the University of the Balearic […]
Emotions journal issue
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Cognitive Systems Research has a whole issue on the subject of emotions as related to cognition. If you’re interested in the impact of emotions on cognition, then you should go check it out. Probably the most interesting paper for people working in emotions in HCI is the one by Gerald L. Clore and and Janet […]
Visual search of emotional faces
Thursday, November 6th, 2008A paper of interest to people working on emotions: Manuel G. Calvo, Lauri Nummenmaa and Pedro Avero, Visual search of emotional faces: Eye-movement assessment of component processes, Experimental Psychology, volume 55, issue 6, pp. 359-370.
In a visual search task using photographs of real faces, a target emotional face was presented in an array of six […]
The presentation is finally ready
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008I’m finally happy with the shape of my presentation for the Microsoft Symposium. I just need to practice it a bit more as I keep stumbling on my words.
I decided to do a presentation on emotions in collaborative virtual environments, but I feel that it might be at the limit of the social computing phenomenon […]
Photorealistic facial animation
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Lots of information on the web about Image Metrics‘ very realistic avatar facial animation (warning: if you view the video on the home page, the actress screams loudly towards the end of the video - I accidentally scared our boss in the next office by playing the audio a bit too loud). Technabob presents a […]
Communicating emotion: Linking affective prosody and word meaning.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Oh, I need to get a copy of this paper. It definitely should go in our paper on the emotional avatar research. Communicating emotion: Linking affective prosody and word meaning, by Nygaard, Lynne C.; Queen, Jennifer S., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008, vol 34(4), 1017-1030.
The present study investigated the role of […]
Paper submitted to CSCW 2008
Friday, April 4th, 2008It’s amazing how, even when I think a paper is finished and ready for submission, it still takes me a day or two to get the PDF file perfect. Of course, I have to re-read it one last time and then I inevitably catch some small typo that I had missed previously. Then I had […]
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