Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions.

Facial expressions and the regulation of emotions.

In the two decades since contemporary psychologists produced strong evidence confirming Darwin's century-old hypothesis of the innateness and universality of certain facial expressions of emotions, research on expressive behavior has become well established in developmental, social, and personality psychology and in psychophysiology. There are also signs of increased interest in emotions in cli...

Facial Expressions, Emotions, and Sign Languages

Facial expressions are used by humans to convey various types of meaning in various contexts. The range of meanings spans basic possibly innate socio-emotional concepts such as "surprise" to complex and culture specific concepts such as "carelessly." The range of contexts in which humans use facial expressions spans responses to events in the environment to particular linguistic constructions w...

Facial Expressions of Emotions for Virtual Characters

CBR Tagging of Emotions from Facial Expressions

In our current research we use CBR to identify the emotional state of an user during her interaction with a recommender system by analysing pictures of her momentary facial expression. In a previous work [2] we introduced PhotoMood, a CBR system that uses gestures to identify emotions from the user face self-pictures, and presented preliminary experiments analysing only the external mouth conto...

Contextual influences on dynamic facial expressions.

Participants viewed dynamic facial expressions that moved from a neutral expression to varying degrees of angry, happy, or sad or from these emotionally expressive faces to neutral.A contrast effect was observed for expressions that moved to a neutral state. That is, a neutral expression that began as angry was rated as having a mildly positive expression, whereas the same neutral expression wa...