This research explores the effects of physical interactions designed on the basis of motor expressions to support creative ideation in creativity support technologies. The presented research looks into the effects on creative ideation of incompatibility between motor expressions and problem situations, and appraisals of (un)pleasantness. We report the results of a preliminary study which sugges...

Touch, such as a caress, can be interpreted as very pleasant. The emotional valence assigned to touch is likely related to certain bottom-up factors, such as optimal activation of C-tactile (CT) afferents. It is however unclear if besides somatosensory input, contextual factors related to the own body also play a role in the perceived pleasantness of touch. To test this, we manipulated visual a...

Contextual perceptions have a complicated effect on soundscapes in urban open public spaces. The objective of this study was to explore the systematic relationship between contextual factors and soundscape evaluations spaces with recreational function. Six areas northern China were selected, questionnaire survey conducted evaluate satisfaction soundscapes. results showed that dominant sound sou...

Flavor Processing in the Primate Brain 1 Pathways 1 The Primary Taste Cortex 1 The Secondary Taste Cortex 1 Representation of Flavor: Convergence of Olfactory and Taste Inputs 2 Representation of Flavor: Convergence of Visual Inputs With Taste, Olfactory, and Oral Texture Inputs 4 Representation of the Pleasantness and Reward Value of Flavor in the Brain 4 Cognitive Effects on Representations o...

This experiment examined six short texts for their effectiveness in inducing positive or negative mood in an online environment. Compared to two control groups, the texts successfully changed mood in the desired direction for mood measured on a single-item self-report scale. In accordance with previous research, negative mood was induced more effectively than positive mood. In addition to the s...

In domains such as music and visual art, where the quality of an individual often depends on subjective or hard to express concepts, the automating fitness assignment becomes a difficult problem. This paper discusses the application of Zipf’s Law in evaluation of music pleasantness. Preliminary results indicate that a set of Zipf-based metrics can be effectively used to classify music according...