Cognitive Technologies

Area I - "Theories and Models" of Emotion.- 1.0 Editorial - "Theories and Models"' of Emotion.- 1.1 Emotion - Concepts and Definitions.- 1.2 Emotions in Social Interactions - Unfolding Emotional Experience.- 1.3 Biological and Computational Constraints to Psychological Modelling of Emotion.- Area II - Signals to Signs.- 2.0 Editorial - "Signals to Signs" - Feature Extraction, Recognition and Multimodal Fusion.- 2.1 The Automatic Recognition of Emotions in Speech.- 2.2 Image and Video Processing for Affective Applications.- 2.3 Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Low-Level Cues.- 2.4 Physiological Signals and Their Use in Augmenting Emotion Recognition for Human-Machine Interaction.- Area III - Data and Databases.- 3.0 Editorial - "Data and Databases".- 3.1 Principles and History.- 3.2 Issues in Data Collection.- 3.3 Issues in Data Labelling.- 3.4 The HUMAINE Database.- Area IV - Emotion in Interaction.- 4.0 Editorial - "Emotion in Interaction".- 4.1 Fundamentals of Agent Perception and Attention Modelling.- 4.2 Generating Listening Behaviour.- 4.3 Coordinating the Generation of Signs in Multiple Modalities in an Affective Agent.- 4.4 Representing Emotions and Related States in Technological Systems.- 4.5 Embodied Conversational Characters - Representation Formats for Multimodal Communicative Behaviours.- .- Area V - Emotion in Cognition and Action.- 5.0 Editorial - Emotion in Cognition and Action.- 5.1 A Bottom-Up Investigation of Emotional Modulation in Competitive Scenarios.- 5.2 Novelty Processing and Emotion - Conceptual Developments, Empirical Findings and Virtual Environments.- 5.3 Cognitive Evaluations and Intuitive Appraisals - Can Emotion Models Handle Them Both?.- 5.4 Anticipation and Emotion.- 5.5 Socially Situated Affective Systems.- Area VI - Persuasion and Communication.- 6.0 Editorial - "Persuasion and Communication".- 6.1 Emotion in Persuasion from a Persuader's Perspective - A True Marriage Between Cognition and Affect.- 6.2 Approaches to Verbal Persuasion in Intelligent User Interfaces.- 6.3 Non-verbal Persuasion and Communication in an Affective Agent.- 6.4 Computational Humour.- Area VII - Usability.- 7.0 Editorial - "Usability".- 7.1 The Design and Evaluation Process.- 7.2 Understanding Users and Their Situation.- 7.3 Generating Ideas and Building Prototypes.- 7.4 Evaluation of Affective Interactive Applications.- Area VIII - Ethics and Good Practice.- 8.0 Editorial - "Ethics and Good Practice" - Computers and Forbidden Places - Where Machines May and May Not Go.- 8.1 Principalism - A Method for the Ethics of Emotion-Oriented Machines.- 8.2 The Ethical Distinctiveness of Emotion-Oriented Technology: Four Long-Term Issues.- 8.3 Emotion-Oriented Systems and the Autonomy of Persons.- 8.4 Ethics in Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Challenges for an Ethics Committee.- Glossary.- Index.