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The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries

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El paisaje como imagen afectiva

Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun

On his way to a political philosophy founded not on how we would like things to be, but on how they are, the philosopher Spinoza had to take a step back and develop an ethics that presented affects as properties of bodies. From there, and in order to deter ...

Abada2023

Objective: To examine whether putatively atypical neuronal activity during internal attention in ADHD yields insights into processes underlying emotion dysregulation. Methods: We used a word processing paradigm to assess neural activations in adults with A ...

2023

Aesthetic experience enhances first-person spatial representation

Mariana Babo Rebelo, Marie Chatel

Episodic autobiographical memories are characterized by a spatial context and an affective component. But how do affective and spatial aspects interact? Does affect modulate the way we encode the spatial context of events? We investigated how one element o ...

NATL ACAD SCIENCES2022

A Speech-based Productive Engagement Metric for Real-time Human-Robot Interaction in Collaborative Educational Contexts

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir

One of the major challenges in educational contexts is to correctly interpret the student's learning process in real-time, which is a necessary pre-requisite for timely and appropriate interventions. In educational HRI, multiple solutions have been propose ...

2022

Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

Motivated by the goal of designing interventions for softening polarized opinions on the Web, and building on results from psychology, we hypothesized that people would be moved more easily towards opposing opinions when the latter were voiced by a celebri ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User's Physiological Affective States

Diego Felipe Paez Granados

Self-tracking aims to increase awareness, decrease undesired behaviors, and ultimately lead towards a healthier lifestyle. However, inappropriate communication of self-tracking results might cause the opposite effect. Subtle self-tracking feedback is an al ...

IEEE2020

Brain functional connectivity dynamics at rest in the aftermath of affective and cognitive challenges

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thomas William Arthur Bolton, Gwladys Rey, Julian Gaviria

Carry-over effects on brain states have been reported following emotional and cognitive events, persisting even during subsequent rest. Here, we investigated such effects by identifying recurring co-activation patterns (CAPs) in neural networks at rest wit ...

WILEY2020

Tools that provide visual feedback about emotions to the user in the form of an avatar or an emoticon have become increasingly important. While a great deal of effort has already been put into the reliable and accurate automatic detection of emotions, only ...

ACM2016

Put on that colour, it fits your emotion: Colour appropriateness as a function of expressed emotion

Christine Mohr, Cynthia Marchand

People associate affective meaning with colour, and this may influence decisions about colours. Hue is traditionally considered the most salient descriptor of colour and colour-affect associations, although colour brightness and saturation seem to have par ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

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Lightning location systems (LLSs) are often used to obtain parameters of lightning flashes. However, the imperfect detection efficiency (DE) of these systems affects the accuracy of the results. In this paper, we focus on the effects of the imperfect DE on ...

Ieee2016