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This paper introduces a series of experiments with the objective of assessing the influence of color in emotion regulation. For this sake, images with one single color or one single dominant color are shown to a set of participants who take part in the experimentation. Firstly, the architecture of the color emotion regulation system is introduced. The methodology for color emotion recognition is based on a novel approach of both direct and indirect emotion evaluation. Then, the experimental setup is discussed together with the testing procedure. The tests are based on questionnaires for emotional state evaluation, color preference and personality. Lastly, the experimental results are described and discussed.
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This work was partially supported by Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad / FEDER under TIN2013-47074-C2-1-R grant.
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Sokolova, M.V., Fernández-Caballero, A., Ros, L., Fernández-Aguilar, L., Latorre, J.M. (2015). Experimentation on Emotion Regulation with Single-Colored Images. In: Cleland, I., Guerrero, L., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations. IWAAL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26410-3_25
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