This chapter provides a brief introduction to the construct of emotional intelligence (EI), focusing on the conceptual distinction between trait EI (or emotional self-efficacy) and ability EI (or cognitive-emotional ability). The former encompasses emotion-related behavioral dispositions and self-perceived abilities measured via self-report, whereas the latter concerns actual emotion-related co...

This paper attempts to define an emotional model for virtual agents that behave autonomously in social worlds. We adopt shallow modeling based on the decomposition of the emotional state in two qualities: valence (pleasantness or hedonic value) and arousal (bodily activation) and, also, for the agent personality based on the five factors model (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeab...

We discuss a new design methodology of self-organizing approximator technique (selforganizing polynomial neural networks (SOPNN)) using evolutionary algorithm (EA). The SOPNN dwells on the ideas of group method of data handling. The performances of SOPNN depend strongly on the number of input variables available to the model, the number of input variables and type (order) of the polynomials to ...

Abstract Marital and parenting systems are likely to interact during the first year of an infant’s life. This study examines longitudinal interrelations relationship satisfaction parental reflective functioning (PRF) their predictive relations with later emotional availability (EA) infant social-emotional behaviors (SEB) including skills as well behavioral problems among first-time Finnish moth...

Although worked-out examples play a key role in cognitive skill acquisition, research demonstrates that students have various levels of meta-cognitive abilities for using examples effectively. The Example Analogy (EA)-Coach is an Intelligent Tutoring System that provides adaptive support to foster meta-cognitive behaviors relevant to a specific type of example-based learning known as analogical...

Here we present three interactive artworks that showcase the abilities of active textured surfaces to enable new qualities of surface interactions. Giving the surfaces different sensing abilities, ways to act and behaviors, then allows us to explore emotional attributes and character perceived by an observer. The three designs reflect artworks emotional perception of the observer and the result...

The present study was designed to delineate further the female advantage in location memory by testing memory for faces that varied in their emotional expressions. A female advantage in face location was found, consistent with the implicit assumption that a female advantage in location memory is not dependent on the nature of the stimulus. However, exposure to threatening facial expressions abo...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that electroacupuncture (EA) has a significant effect on acute pain, but it has not solved the clinical problem of the chronification of acute pain. Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) function as a reliable indicator to predict the risk of chronic pain events. DNIC function in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients has been demonstrated to gradually de...

Aim/Purpose: This study identifies the scale types and measurement units used in of enterprise architecture (EA) analyzes admissibility mathematical operations used. Background: The majority solutions proposed EA literature are based on researchers’ opinions many with limited empirical validation weak metrological properties. means that results generated by these may not be reliable, trustworth...