Abstract
Sadness is a negative emotion, which aims at a deactivated physiological and behavioural state [21] and so this is easy to develop in film experiencing, where the viewer is passively watching and feeling. Interactive storytelling supposes active physiological behaviours and this raises the problematic – how to create sad deactivated moments during interactive sequences. In this paper we intend to develop and present different ways to approach this problematic and methodologies to implement interactive sad moments in virtual environments, as videogames. These moments will be defined as situations of affective attachment supported by virtual body touching, visually represented by virtual gently stroking body parts (shoulders, hands, hair), bear hugs, soft kissing and lying against each other cuddling.
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Zagalo, N., Torres, A., Branco, V. (2006). Passive Interactivity, an Answer to Interactive Emotion. In: Harper, R., Rauterberg, M., Combetto, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006. ICEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_6
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