This paper explores one way to use music in the context of affective design. We've made a real-time music generator that is designed around the concepts of valence and arousal, which are two components of certain models of emotion. When set to a desired valence and arousal, the algorithm plays music corresponding to the intersection of these two parameters. We designed our algorithm using psych...

This article is a biopsychosocial proposal about improvement of resilience to diseases, including the COVID-19, due affective attachment between humans and dogs. Resilience concerns physical emotional human capacity respond positively adverse events such as diseases. Recently, some authors have proposed independent hypotheses role oxytocin (OT) crossed immunity increase psychological immune res...

soil conservation service (scs) adjusted the kostiakovs infiltration model by adding a constant coefficient, for improvement of estimation. the improved model has three constant parameters, which are difficult to calculate. so scs has taken the third constant parameter as equal to 0.65-0.7 cm to simplify the estimation. this parameter varies in different soil and often outranges the scs estimat...

Bringing culture and personality in a combination with emotions requires bringing three different theories together. In this paper we discuss an approach for combining hofstede’s cultural dimensions, BIG five personality parameters and PSI theory of emotions to come up with an emergent affective character model

In one of the Father Brown short-stories, G.K. Chesterton described the (fictitious) French detective Aristide Valentin by writing that ‘‘(h)e was not ‘a thinking machine’; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. A machine only is a machine because it cannot think.’’ Although this aphorism dates from 1911, long before the notion of a thinking machine became popular, i...

Emotions are an increasingly important factor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Up to the present, emotion recognition in HCI implies the use of explicit or intrusive methods, for example, video cameras or physiological measurements. We are developing and evaluating a method for the measurement of affective states through motor-behavioral parameters from standard input devices (mouse and key...