Lifelike animated agents for knowledge based learning en vironments can provide timely customized advice to support leaners problem solving activities By drawing on a rich repertoire of emotive behaviors to exhibit contextually appropriate facial expressions and emo tive gestures these agents could exploit the visual channel to more ef fectively communicate with learners To address these issues...

Emotional expressivity in singing is examined by comparing neutral and expressive performances of a set of music excerpts as performed by a professional baritone singer. Both the neutral and the expressive versions showed considerable deviations from the nominal description represented by the score. Much of these differences can be accounted for in terms of the application of two basic principl...

Closed captioning has been enabling access to television for people who are deaf and hard of hearing since the early 1970s. Since that time, technology and people’s demands have been steadily improving and increasing. Closed captioning has not kept up with these changes. We present the results of a study that used graphics, colour, icons and animation as well as text, emotive captions, to captu...

BACKGROUND This pilot study was designed to investigate the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral treatment for anger. METHOD Twelve (5 men and 7 women) outpatient adults completed 2-hour group sessions for 16 sessions. Participants were diagnosed with 29 Axis I and 34 Axis II disorders with high rates of comorbidity. Empirically supported techniques of skills training, cognitive restructuring, ...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the association between emotional labor and dysmenorrhea among women working in sales and call centers in Seoul, South Korea. METHODS Working women in sales jobs and call centers in Seoul were interviewed face-to-face by well-trained interviewers. In total, 975 participants were analyzed in the final model. Emotional labor was measured using ...

The paper presents an approach to building a very large emotive lexicon for Polish based on plWordNet. An expanded annotation model is discussed, in which lexical units (word senses) are annotated with basic emotions, fundamental human values and sentiment polarisation. The annotation process is performed manually in the 2+1 scheme by pairs of linguists and psychologies. Guidelines referring to...

Whether or not we are experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their forms. The EmotiveModeler integrates knowledge about our emotive perception of shapes into a CAD tool that uses descriptive adjectives as an input to aid designers in creating objects that can communicate emotive character. Through inputting words into the Em...

In many auction problems, we consider a selfinterested seller who is allocating item(s) to bidders in exchange for payments. The highly celebrated VCG mechanism provides an auction mechanism in this case that is efficient, strategy-proof, and ex post individually rational (IR). If the seller’s goal is to maximize revenue, alternative mechanisms include the Myerson optimal auction, which maximiz...

Counterpoint: Power in the Dining Hall is a poem by Sophie Collins. Written as an echo and response to Al Zolynas' emotive Love Classroom, poet describes sudden, bodily intrusion of material smells atmosphere training session. This evokes school day memories , physicality learning, overwhelming frustration teaching within neo-liberal educational constraints.

Voice quality is recognized to play an important role for the rendering of emotions in verbal communication. In this paper we explore the effectiveness of a sinusoidal modeling processing framework for voice transformations finalized to the analysis and synthesis of emotive speech. A set of acoustic cues is selected to compare the voice quality characteristics of the speech signals on a voice c...