Maria Alejandra Quiros-Ramirez
Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Senya Polikovsky
Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yoshinari Kameda
Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Takehisa Onisawa
Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Published in: KEER2014. Proceedings of the 5th Kanesi Engineering and Emotion Research; International Conference; Linköping; Sweden; June 11-13
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 100:94, p. 1127-1134
Published: 2014-06-11
ISBN: 978-91-7519-276-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
In this paper; we present a new database to support the cross-cultural studies. Two cultural groups are selected: Latin America and Japan; to represent western and oriental cultures. Emotions are elicited through an experiment in which participants observe emotionally loaded stimuli and then rate their feelings in a valence (how positive or negative is the experienced emotion) and arousal (how intense is this emotion) scale. The interactions are recorded using audiovisual and thermal devices. This database features three innovative characteristics: spontaneous emotion expressions; multiple synchronized sources of interaction; cross-cultural comparison support. This set of characteristics is missing in the currently available emotion databases; making our database a unique open option for studying spontaneous expressiveness of emotions in a cross-cultural context.
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