Embodied computer agents are becoming an increasingly popular human–computer interaction technique. Often, these agents are programmed with the capacity for emotional expression. This paper investigates the psychological effects of emotion in agents upon users. In particular, two types of emotion were evaluated: self-oriented emotion and other-oriented, empathic emotion. In a 2 (self-oriented e...

The same facial expression will be seen as expressing different types and degrees of emotion, depending on what other faces are seen. A relatively neutral face seems sad when presented alongside a happier face, happy alongside a sadder face. A relatively unhappy face seems sad when presented alongside an angrier face, angry alongside a sadder face. The specific emotion seen in a face can be pre...

The accurate integration of audio-visual emotion cues is critical for social interactions andrequires efficient processing of facial cues. Gaze behavior of typically developing young adultswas measured via eye-tracking during the perception of dynamic audio-visual emotion (DAVE) stimuli. Participants were able to identify basic emotions (angry, fearful, happy, neutral) anddetermine ...

Facial emotion expression for virtual characters is used in a wide variety of areas. Often, the primary reason to use emotion expression is not to study emotion expression generation per se, but to use emotion expression in an application or research project. What is then needed is an easy to use and flexible, but also validated mechanism to do so. In this report we present such a mechanism. It...

To maximize the quality improvement and tangibility of emotion-based personalized services, a lot of efforts are put into researches on emotional expression languages, measurement of emotions, emotional transference and expression model, personalized emotional space model, emotion-based personalized services, and so forth. To maximize quality improvement and tangibility of emotion-based persona...