An emotion icon, better known as emoticon is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation. The present study investigates the use of these nonverbal cues in whatsapp public cha...

There are many problems that occur in unhealthy relationships and the research aims to see how far rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) can prevent toxic relationships, approach used is field method (qualitative) data sources obtained from interviews observation respondents. The results of study show has a significant impact on handling experienced by Providing services change attitudes, pe...

As a consequence of an increasingly elderly population, accommodating age-related impairments has become a serious concern in many countries. To assist people with disabilities, the use of electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain–computer interface (BCI) systems has been explored and has proven to be both clinically usable and feasible. In this study, four mental tasks that are directly related...

Changes in a speaker’s emotion are a fundamental component in human communication. Some emotions motivate human actions while others add deeper meaning and richness to human interactions. In this paper, we explore the development of a computing algorithm that uses audio and visual sensors to recognize a speaker's affective state. Within the framework of Multistream Hidden Markov Model (MHMM), w...

The paper focuses on the interlocutors' self-evaluation in Finnish and Estonian first encounter dialogues. It studies affective and emotive impressions of the participants after they have met the partner for the first time, and presents comparison of the evaluation along the gender, age and education parameters. The results bring forward some statistically significant differences between the tw...