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Computational Affective Sociology

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Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction

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An alternative tradition concerning emotion in human-centered computing is based on sociological conceptions of personality and the emotional meanings of decisions. This essay summarizes work in this area, beginning with the classic Big 5 personality dimensions and the semantic differential, then illustrates recent work with two projects that developed software research tools. The first builds on the semantic differential to measure an individual’s self-esteem across several dimensions, and the second assesses the subject’s reactions to 2,000 common events in terms of 20 emotions.

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Bainbridge, W.S. (2008). Computational Affective Sociology. In: Peter, C., Beale, R. (eds) Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4868. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85099-1_3

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