Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction: Second International Conference, ACII 2007 Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Expressive Face Animation Synthesis Based on Dynamic Mapping Method....Pages 1-11
Model of Facial Expressions Management for an Embodied Conversational Agent....Pages 12-23
Facial Expression Synthesis Using PAD Emotional Parameters for a Chinese Expressive Avatar....Pages 24-35
Reconstruction and Recognition of Occluded Facial Expressions Using PCA....Pages 36-47
Recognizing Affective Dimensions from Body Posture....Pages 48-58
Detecting Affect from Non-stylised Body Motions....Pages 59-70
Recognising Human Emotions from Body Movement and Gesture Dynamics....Pages 71-82
Person or Puppet? The Role of Stimulus Realism in Attributing Emotion to Static Body Postures....Pages 83-94
Motion Capture and Emotion: Affect Detection in Whole Body Movement....Pages 95-101
Does Body Movement Engage You More in Digital Game Play? and Why?....Pages 102-113
A Systematic Comparison of Different HMM Designs for Emotion Recognition from Acted and Spontaneous Speech....Pages 114-125
On the Necessity and Feasibility of Detecting a Driver’s Emotional State While Driving....Pages 126-138
Frame vs. Turn-Level: Emotion Recognition from Speech Considering Static and Dynamic Processing....Pages 139-147
Characterizing Emotion in the Soundtrack of an Animated Film: Credible or Incredible?....Pages 148-158
Time- and Amplitude-Based Voice Source Correlates of Emotional Portrayals....Pages 159-170
Temporal Organization in Listeners’ Perception of the Speakers’ Emotions and Characteristics: A Way to Improve the Automatic Recognition of Emotion-Related States in Human Voice....Pages 171-178
 ’You are Sooo Cool, Valentina!’ Recognizing Social Attitude in Speech-Based Dialogues with an ECA....Pages 179-190
Assessing Sentiment of Text by Semantic Dependency and Contextual Valence Analysis....Pages 191-202
How Rude Are You?: Evaluating Politeness and Affect in Interaction....Pages 203-217
Textual Affect Sensing for Sociable and Expressive Online Communication....Pages 218-229
Lexical Affect Sensing: Are Affect Dictionaries Necessary to Analyze Affect?....Pages 230-241
Affective Text Variation and Animation for Dynamic Advertisement....Pages 242-253
Entertainment Modeling in Physical Play Through Physiology Beyond Heart-Rate....Pages 254-265
Comprehension of Users’ Subjective Interaction States During Their Interaction with an Artificial Agent by Means of Heart Rate Variability Index....Pages 266-277
Facial Activation Control Effect (FACE)....Pages 278-289
Music, Heart Rate, and Emotions in the Context of Stimulating Technologies....Pages 290-301
A Multi-method Approach to the Assessment of Web Page Designs....Pages 302-313
Rational Agents That Blush....Pages 314-325
Wishful Thinking Revision....Pages 326-337
An Empathic Rational Dialog Agent....Pages 338-349
Basing Artificial Emotion on Process and Resource Management....Pages 350-361
The Benefits of Surprise in Dynamic Environments: From Theory to Practice....Pages 362-373
Modulatory Influence of Motivations on a Schema-Based Architecture: A Simulative Study....Pages 374-385
Designing an Emotional and Attentive Virtual Infant....Pages 386-397
A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios....Pages 398-409
Enthusiasm and Its Contagion: Nature and Function....Pages 410-421
Learning to Interact with the Caretaker: A Developmental Approach....Pages 422-433
Affective Adaptation of Synthetic Social Behaviour....Pages 434-439
What Should a Generic Emotion Markup Language Be Able to Represent?....Pages 440-451
Towards Knowledge-Based Affective Interaction: Situational Interpretation of Affect....Pages 452-463
Collection and Annotation of a Corpus of Human-Human Multimodal Interactions: Emotion and Others Anthropomorphic Characteristics....Pages 464-475
Using Actor Portrayals to Systematically Study Multimodal Emotion Expression: The GEMEP Corpus....Pages 476-487
The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data....Pages 488-500
User-Centered Control of Audio and Visual Expressive Feedback by Full-Body Movements....Pages 501-510
Towards Affective-Psychophysiological Foundations for Music Production....Pages 511-522
Sound Design for Affective Interaction....Pages 523-533
Explanatory Style for Socially Interactive Agents....Pages 534-545
Expression of Emotions in Virtual Humans Using Lights, Shadows, Composition and Filters....Pages 546-557
Pogany: A Tangible Cephalomorphic Interface for Expressive Facial Animation....Pages 558-569
SuperDreamCity: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience That Responds to Electrodermal Activity....Pages 570-581
Stoop to Conquer: Posture and Affect Interact to Influence Computer Users’ Persistence....Pages 582-593
Video Affective Content Representation and Recognition Using Video Affective Tree and Hidden Markov Models....Pages 594-605
I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters....Pages 606-617
Creative Industrial Design and Computer-Based Image Retrieval: The Role of Aesthetics and Affect....Pages 618-629
Interactive Storytelling with Literary Feelings....Pages 630-641
Children’s Emotional Interpretation of Synthetic Character Interactions....Pages 642-653
Visual Femininity and Masculinity in Synthetic Characters and Patterns of Affect....Pages 654-665
The Dynamics of Affective Transitions in Simulation Problem-Solving Environments....Pages 666-677
Investigating Human Tutor Responses to Student Uncertainty for Adaptive System Development....Pages 678-689
Generalized “Stigma”: Evidence for Devaluation-by-Inhibition Hypothesis from Implicit Learning....Pages 690-697
Early Prediction of Student Frustration....Pages 698-709
A Novel Feature for Emotion Recognition in Voice Based Applications....Pages 710-711
Asymmetry of Left Versus Right Lateral Face in Face Recognition....Pages 712-713
Simulating Dynamic Speech Behaviour for Virtual Agents in Emotional Situations....Pages 714-715
A Definition Approach for an “Emotional Turing Test”....Pages 716-717
Interpolating Expressions in Unit Selection....Pages 718-720
Induction and Evaluation of Affects for Facial Motion Capture....Pages 721-722
Ontology-Driven Affective Chinese Text Analysis and Evaluation Method....Pages 723-724
Modeling the Dynamic Nonlinear Nature of Emotional Phenomena....Pages 725-726
Deception Detection Via Blob Motion Pattern Analysis....Pages 727-728
Combining Audio and Video by Dominance in Bimodal Emotion Recognition....Pages 729-730
Metric Adaptation and Representation Upgrade in an Emotion-Based Agent Model....Pages 731-732
Combining Global and Local Classifiers for Lipreading....Pages 733-734
The Personality-Enabled Architecture for Cognition (PAC)....Pages 735-736
Rules of Emotions: A Linguistic Interpretation of an Emotion Model for Affect Sensing from Texts....Pages 737-738
The Role of Internal States in the Emergence of Motivation and Preference: A Robotics Approach....Pages 739-740
Feature Combination for Better Differentiating Anger from Neutral in Mandarin Emotional Speech....Pages 741-742
Affect-Insensitive Speaker Recognition by Feature Variety Training....Pages 743-744
Expressing Complex Mental States Through Facial Expressions....Pages 745-746
Metaphor and Affect Detection in an ICA....Pages 747-748
An Emotional Model for Synthetic Characters with Personality....Pages 749-750
A Tool for Experimenting with Theories of Emotion in MultiAgent Systems....Pages 751-752
Displaying Expression in Musical Performance by Means of a Mobile Robot....Pages 753-754
Gradient or Contours Cues? A Gating Experiment for the Timing of the Emotional Information....Pages 755-756
Exploring Manipulative Hand Movements During a Stressful Condition....Pages 757-758
Real Emotion Is Dynamic and Interactive....Pages 759-760
Perception of Emotions from Static Postures....Pages 761-762
Sound for A-Life Agents....Pages 763-765
I-Sounds....Pages 766-767
A Computational Model of Goal Appraisal....Pages 768-769
Affective Video Data Collection Using an Automobile Simulator....Pages 770-771
Mixed Feelings About Using Phoneme-Level Models in Emotion Recognition....Pages 772-773
Emotional Faces in Peripheral Crowding....Pages 774-775
Affect Related Acoustic Features of Speech and Their Modification....Pages 776-777
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