Life is complex. Emotions help us to deal with life. So it should not come as a surprise that emotions are also complex. Emotion theories should help us to see through this complex world of emotions. In order to do so, they have to simplify things. However, they should not oversimplify. Dimensional models have a long tradition in emotion theory [10]. Most dimensional models are based on the thr...

Recently, more and more attention is being paid to emotions in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. However, there has been little research that focuses on the relation between emotions and usability or ‘web design’. In this context, we examined the correlation between the emotions of the user and the usability of the applications he or she is working with. The main findings reveal that the...

In recent studies on emotions and computer games the experiential side of emotions is often left uncharted due to methodological constraints. Regarding a comprehensive understanding on computer games and emotions such ignorance is untenable. By basing its analysis on an experience already lived as an emotional playing experience, this paper examines emotions in play in regard to both their qual...

Human emotions are socially constructed (Berger and Luckmann 1966). Emotions are shaped by social processes and social forces. Emotions are social as well as psychological phenomena, responses to social situations that are shaped by social learning. However useful it may be to consider emotions as physiological or as psychological events, the sociological study of emotions draws attention to of...

Emotions play a significant role in human teamwork. However, despite the significant progress in multiagent teamwork, as well as progress in computational models of emotions, there have been very few investigations of the role of emotions in multiagent teamwork. This chapter attempts a first step towards addressing this shortcoming. It provides a short survey of the state of the art in multiage...

Emotions play a significant role in human teamwork. However, despite the significant progress in multiagent teamwork, as well as progress in computational models of emotions, there have been very few investigations of the role of emotions in multiagent teamwork. This chapter attempts a first step towards addressing this shortcoming. It provides a short survey of the state of the art in multiage...

This paper presents an experimental study investigating the impact of dancing IVAs on human emotions. The results showed that watching a dancing IVA depicting different emotions significantly influenced human emotions. Additionally, the participant’s anger, sadness and happiness were significantly dependent on which dancing character’s emotion they watched. Moreover, the results of the study sh...

This paper deals with the emotions experienced by a player. It problematises the empirical psychological study of players’ emotions. The paper suggests emotions to be understood as structured relationships instead of as reactions. It proposes players’ emotions to be analysed through their intentionality, by looking at games as constituting the objects of the emotions. The article questions the ...

Several discrete emotions have broad theoretical and empirical importance, as shown by converging evidence from diverse areas of psychology, including facial displays, developmental behaviors, and neuroscience. However, the measurement of these states has not progressed along with theory, such that when researchers measure subjectively experienced emotions, they commonly rely on scales assessin...

a r t i c l e i n f o Decades of emotion research have demonstrated the unique influences of many specific emotions on consumer behaviors. These countless numbers of emotion effects can make it difficult to understand the role of emotions in consumer behavior. The current research introduces a parsimonious framework that can predict the effects of emotions on the consumer behavior of gift givin...