In this position paper, we address three topics regarding the use of users’ facial expression to study emotion in HCI: theories of emotion as basis for research, EMG measures of facial muscles to study users’ emotions and application of emotion recognition methods in user experience studies.

1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM To recognize affective states is important in humancomputer interaction. Many researchers are committed to develop methods that can help computers to better understand people’s emotion. Nowadays most work about emotion recognition focus on facial expression analysis. But people’s affect status can be represented through the whole body and facial expression is only on...

Contemporary views on facial expression take for granted that there are some basic emotions that are manifested by a few typical facial expressions. During the last twenty years psychologists have tried to demonstrate the link between basic emotion and facial expression by carrying out experiments on recognition, in which people attribute a particular emotion to a particular facial

Many studies have been conducted on how to detect emotion classes or magnitudes from multimedia information such as text, audio, and images. However, the methods that can use predicted emotion classes and magnitudes to render emotion expressions in Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) are still unclear. This paper proposes a computer graphics methodology that uses predicted non-linear regressio...

Abstract This study aimed to understand the impact of prosodic deficit in Parkinson’s disease (PD) on communicative effectiveness vocal expression emotion. Fourteen patients with PD and 13 healthy control subjects (HC) uttered phrase “non è possible, non ora” (“It is not now”) six times reading different emotional narrations. Three experts evaluated subjects’ production terms their effectivenes...

This paper discusses a deep learning-based image processing method to recognize human emotion from their facial expression with special concentration on infant’s face between one five years of age. The work has importance because most the time it becomes necessary understand need child and behavior. is still challenge in field Human Facial Emotion Recognition due confusing that sometimes found ...

The authors have been developing humanoid robots in order to develop new mechanisms and functions for a humanoid robot that has the ability to communicate naturally with a human by expressing human-like emotion. We considered that human hands play an important role in communication because human hands have grasping, sensing and emotional expression abilities. Then, we developed the the Emotion ...

Under what conditions do individuals feel free to express their emotions? To what degree are actors constrained by the social domain in which their emotions are activat-ed? To what extent are they bound by the hierarchical position that they occupy or by their status as a function of their gender, race, or class? Questions such as these are central to the sociology of emotion and illustrate how...

The present study examined whether sex differences in emotion are related to the social context and addressed differences between global, retrospective, and on-line, momentary self-descriptions of emotional experience and expression. Participants provided global, retrospective descriptions of their emotional characteristics at an initial session, and then provided momentary emotion ratings as w...