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The Hourglass of Emotions

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Cognitive Behavioural Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 7403))

Abstract

Human emotions and their modelling are increasingly understood to be a crucial aspect in the development of intelligent systems. Over the past years, in fact, the adoption of psychological models of emotions has become a common trend among researchers and engineers working in the sphere of affective computing. Because of the elusive nature of emotions and the ambiguity of natural language, however, psychologists have developed many different affect models, which often are not suitable for the design of applications in fields such as affective HCI, social data mining, and sentiment analysis. To this end, we propose a novel biologically-inspired and psychologically-motivated emotion categorisation model that goes beyond mere categorical and dimensional approaches. Such model represents affective states both through labels and through four independent but concomitant affective dimensions, which can potentially describe the full range of emotional experiences that are rooted in any of us.

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  1. Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Erik Cambria

  2. Dept. of Psychology, University of Stirling, UK

    Andrew Livingstone

  3. Dept. of Computing Science & Maths, University of Stirling, UK

    Amir Hussain

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  1. Department of Psychology, and IIASS, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  4. Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Rüdiger Hoffmann

  5. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, P.O. Box 21021, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Cambria, E., Livingstone, A., Hussain, A. (2012). The Hourglass of Emotions. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_11

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