Emotion adds affect and improves understanding in humancomputer interaction. Emotion can not only be conveyed to the human user using visual cues like color or facial expression, but also using music. This paper describes development of CAM (Cellular Automata Music) that generates music using cellular automata and adds affect by modifying it according to a few simple rules that are based on det...

Although a great deal of research addresses the neural basis of deliberate and intentional emotion-regulation strategies, less attention has been paid to the neural mechanisms involved in implicit forms of emotion regulation. Behavioural research suggests that romantically involved participants implicitly derogate the attractiveness of alternative partners, and the present study sought to exami...

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF FACIAL EMOTION PERCEPTION HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY TWO SEEMINGLY OPPOSING THEORIES: the categorical and dimensional theories. However, we have recently demonstrated that hybrid processing involving both categorical and dimensional perception can be induced in an implicit manner (Fujimura etal., 2012). The underlying neural mechanisms of this hybrid processing remain unknown. I...

The current study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine whether regulating negative bias to stigmatized individuals has a unique neural activity profile from general emotion regulation. Participants were presented with images of stigmatized (e.g. homeless people) or non-stigmatized (e.g. a man holding a gun) social targets while undergoing fMRI and were asked either to ma...

This paper presents a new way to model clothing worn by articulated implicit characters. A scalar field is produced using ellipsoids as primitives. Isosurfaces are then used to place garments in one or more layers. As each implicit surface is independent, collision detection is not needed. The cloth is a polygonal mesh whose vertices are in turn moved towards their destination isosurface using ...

As an increasingly powerful computation platform, today’s off-theshelf smartphones are able to handle more sophisticated mobile sensing tasks, such as emotion sensing. Although numerous emotion detection technologies have been developed, the unpredictable variation of a person’s emotion raises the demand of sensing emotion in a mobile fashion. Also, detecting emotion is difficult, since people ...

Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potential studies revealed that performing a cognitive task may suppress the preferential processing of emotional stimuli. However, these studies utilized simple and artificial tasks (i.e. letter, shape or orientation discrimination tasks), unfamiliar to the participants. The present event-related potential study examined th...

Since Freud, clinicians have understood that disturbing memories contribute to psychopathology and that new emotional experiences contribute to therapeutic change. Yet, controversy remains about what is truly essential to bring about psychotherapeutic change. Mounting evidence from empirical studies suggests that emotional arousal is a key ingredient in therapeutic change in many modalities. In...