Modeling Emotions
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In this project, we want design an interactive abstract artwork to represent our personal emotions about some personal event that we remembered as being highly emotional.
In order to recall our emotions that are associated with our selected experience, it's helpful to have models of emotion that provide a structure of information about emotions.
In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning. When the concepts involved are emotion concepts, your brain constructs instances of emotion.
...emotions "are not triggered; you create them. They emerge as a combination of the physical properties of your body, a flexible brain that wires itself to whatever environment it develops in, and your culture and upbringing, which provide that environment.
emotions are conscious experiences that occur when we find our self in a situation where a challenge or opportunity exist. Some occur when a survival circuit is active — like fear — while others don’t involve survival circuits — like pride. What defines the emotion is not whether there’s a survival circuit that’s active but whether we interpret the situation we’re in as either challenging or potentially beneficial.
Classical Models of Emotions
The Hour Glass model of Emotions was created by UX researchers. This model provides categories of emotion: Sensitivity, Attention, Pleasantness, Aptitude, where Emotions are given a numeric value based on the strength of the emotion. This dimensional, numeric model has been used to analyze emotional sentiment from written statements such as twitter tweets. Colors are used in the model to indicate the emotional dimensions.
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