Traditional models of cognitive control have explained performance monitoring as a "cold" cognitive process, devoid of emotion. In contrast to this dominant view, a growing body of clinical and experimental research indicates that cognitive control and its neural substrates, in particular the error-related negativity (ERN), are moderated by affective and motivational factors, reflecting the ave...

One important issue in gaming design is to let the player’s opponents appear as humanlike as possible. The underlying assumption of our work is that integrating artificial emotions to computer players will lead to a higher diversity of game situations and thus, to more interesting and joyful games. In this paper, we integrated an emotion model to agents playing the board game “Intrige”. The cur...

this paper demonstrates a preliminary investigation of geometry, function and its relation to dfx principles, namely dfm (design for manufacturing). this is the starting point for research on the development of an expert system that assesses design goals along dfx principles in a feature-based cad environment. there is a need for a deeper level of understanding of the relationship between geome...

The goal of human-centered product design is to create products that are useful, usable, and desirable. For many years, human factors has been about research, modeling, and evaluating the functional usefulness and usability of products and systems. In recent years, however, the role of emotion in product design has become a ‘hot topic’ for human factors professionals, and a variety of methods h...

In recent years, the eastern part of China has suffered numerous large-scale continuous fog and haze, which seriously impact people’s production and life. In present research, a combination method of questionnaire and experiment is used to discuss whether the hazy weather could influence the emotion and if there are any impacts on the work efficiency. 2 (gender) × 3 (emotional type: positive, n...

The purpose of this article is to show how to design persuasive and successful web shops. An approach to commercial site design that draws on theories of visual persuasion is proposed. In this paper, we will focus on the role of emotion. lmages in an ad are typically meant to create some emotional disposition toward the product, or social cause. The importance of emotions in the on-line shoppin...

In this paper, we proposed a weighted discrete K-nearest neighbor (weighted D-KNN) classification algorithm for detecting and evaluating emotion from Mandarin speech. In the experiments of the emotion recognition, Mandarin emotional speech database used contains five basic emotions, including anger, happiness, sadness, boredom and neutral, and the extracted acoustic features are Mel-Frequency C...