Emotional Space Research Articles

Comparing a standardized to a product-specific emoji list for evaluating food products by children

There is a growing interest in the emotional associations of children to food products in order to better understand their preferences. Recently, emoji were suggested as a novel way to assess these emotional associations. In this study, 172 children aged 8–11 years evaluated the emotional profile of five biscuits in a check-all-that-apply task, where half of the subjects (n = 87) evaluated the applicability of 38 emoji obtained from a standardized emoji list, while the other half (n = 85) worked with 20 emoji from a product-specific emoji list. A similar average number of emoji were used by the participants for the emotional profiling of the samples in both approaches. Results showed that the product-specific emoji list was better able to discriminate between product samples compared to the standardized emoji list. Several emoji were even discriminating between similarly liked samples when using a product-specific emoji list, while only one emoji was able to discriminate between equally-liked samples when using a standardized emoji list. Both approaches produced similar emotional spaces and product configurations, although one needs to consider that the first dimension of the correspondence analysis for the product-specific emoji list explained over 90% of the total variance against 60% for the standardized list. While more research is recommended, this study indicates that a product-specific emoji list could facilitate the emotional product discrimination by children.

A Sentiment Analysis Method Based on BLSTM and CNN Fusion

Sentiment analysis is a research hotspot in natural language processing in recent years. This paper proposes a sentiment analysis method that integrates LSTM and CNN in view of the fact that most existing sentiment analysis methods mix semantics and emotions. This method divides the text into semantic space and emotional space, and uses the attention model to train in two dimensions, and fuses the feature representations of the two to construct the final representation of the text. The results show that the model has achieved good results in multiple emotional review data.

Sensorial Interior: Museum Diorama as Phenomenal Space


 
 
 Museum dioramas are widely recognised as historic visual tropes used to frame the grandeur of the outside world within an interior viewing space. With the development of digital technologies, data projection and soundscape have increasingly replaced diorama production as a means to transform these once static-animal-posed-in-painted- habitat with immersive interiors that engage the visual and aural senses alike. Andre Breton proposes that two modes of consciousness exist: an exterior world of facts and an interior world of emotions. These interiors and exteriors produce an interface and exchange. An invitation to respond to the interior of RMIT University’s First Site gallery provided an opportunity to experiment with the three traditional dioramic elements used to bring the exterior world into an interior employing taxidermy, model making and set painting. By engaging digital technologies in response to these three elements, I developed a sensorial interior, where the exterior world of facts was set into dialogue with the interior world of emotion. A physical encounter that expanded on ‘interior’ as an experiential, relational, phenomenal and emotive space.
 
 

'You put up a certain attitude': a 6-year qualitative study of emotional socialisation.

ContextEmotions play a central role in the professional development of doctors; however, research into how students are socialised to deal with emotions throughout medical school is still lacking.ObjectivesThis study aimed to gain a better understanding of the emotional socialisation of medical students (e.g. how they learn to express and respond to emotions evoked in clinical practice in the process of becoming a doctor).MethodsIn this longitudinal study, 12 medical students participated in annual, individual, semi‐structured interviews, capturing the full 6‐year medical school period. We carried out a thematic analysis, which was iterative and inductive.ResultsThe socialisation of emotion in the process of becoming a doctor happens in a complex interplay between student and context. We identified two modes of emotional socialisation (e.g. explicit and implicit teaching about emotions), the latter including how the people observed by students express their emotions and how they respond to the emotions expressed by students. Although the main message conveyed to students still seemed one about hiding or suppressing emotion, we found that students were able to identify and build upon the emotional expression and responses they observed in positive role models and managed to create their own opportunities to express their emotions. We found large differences between students in how they perceived, presented and developed themselves.ConclusionsStudents differ in how they respond to and what they need from their environment and thus may benefit from tailored supervision in learning how to experience, express and respond to emotion. Providing students with real and authentic responsibility for patients and allowing them time and opportunity to talk about emotion might help them to create an emotional space.

Emotion, politics and literary space in Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Sunil Yapa's Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a book about the redeeming power of love in political struggle, but the nature of that love as it finds congruence with the political can be read in different ways. This paper offers a reading of the text that highlights both the constructive potential and the normative trappings of love as a political principle. Ultimately I argue that all-encompassing or totalizing forms that love often takes are themselves forms of power and domination. I use Your Heart in conjunction with the theories of Sara Ahmed and Kojin Karatani to illustrate this point. This paper also contributes to discussions at a broader level of abstraction, in terms of how a book about love and politics, written by a geographer in a clearly spatial tone, intersects with the political events it describes.

EMOTIONAL AMBIVALENCE AND THE MUSICAL CANON: ELFRIEDE JELINEK'S RESTAGING OF SCHUBERT'S SONGS IN WINTERREISE (2011)

ABSTRACTThis article analyses Elfriede Jelinek's Winterreise (2011), a play that demands a re‐assessment of our contemporary relationship with canonical artworks and artistic traditions. Reviewers praised Winterreise as a remarkably personal and emotional work, but the role of emotions in the play is more than just a reflection on Jelinek's biography or her own ageing. Jelinek stages a meditation on the strong, yet ambivalent feelings bound up with the cultural canon, and with the First Viennese School in particular. For Jelinek, Schubert's music explores marginalised subjectivities but also forms a centrepiece of the Austrian song tradition, which her work has repeatedly associated with the containment and marginalisation of women and others by an oppressive bourgeois society. Yet by drawing on and echoing the ambivalent emotional worlds of Schubert's settings, Jelinek suggests how close attention to the emotions associated with cultural traditions can shed light on structures that exclude certain subjects, while creating space for the negative emotions of society's most isolated and marginalised. I draw on contemporary theories of emotions, musicological scholarship, and analysis of Schubert's song cycle to shed light on the importance of emotional ambivalence for Jelinek's evolving articulation of the value and political difficulties of the musical canon.

The enduring field: Exploring researcher emotions in covert research with antagonistic organisations

This paper explores the emotional dimensions of doing covert research with antagonistic organisations. Drawing on the experiences of three researchers who identify as lesbian, gay, and LGBT ally, who covertly attended public and semi‐public conferences and events organised by groups with heteroactivist positionings over two years, we consider the multiple, nuanced and complex emotional dimensions of being “behind enemy lines” (Jansson, ). We argue for greater consideration of the emotional spaces covert research creates, as in our case a “closet” space was produced which suppressed our sexualities or allyship. Furthermore, we argue that the process of doing covert research is one that both precedes and exceeds being in the field, and as such, we need to pay attention to researcher emotion as a process that begins long before we step into the field and continues long after we leave.

Affective image classification via semi-supervised learning from web images

Affective image classification has drawn increasing research attentions in the affective computing and multimedia communities. Despite many solutions proposed in the literature, it remains a major challenge to bridge the semantic gap between visual features of images and their affective characteristics, partly due to the lack of adequate training samples, which can be largely ascribed to the all-consuming nature of affective image annotation. In this paper, we propose a novel affective image classification algorithm based on semi-supervised learning from web images (SSL-WI). This algorithm consists of four major steps, including color and texture feature extraction, baseline classifier construction, feature selection, and jointly using training images and retrieved web images to re-train the classifier. We have applied this algorithm, the baseline classifier that is not trained by web images, and two state-of-the-art algorithms to differentiating color images in a three-dimensional discrete emotional space. Our results suggest that, with the scheme of semi-supervised learning from web images, the proposed algorithm is able to produce more accurate affective image classification than other three approaches.

Home as Emotional Space in Marilynne Robinson’s Diptych about Gilead

The article discusses the controversial nature of home in Marilynne Robinson’s novels Home and Gilead. Family histories of two aging ministers – the Rev. Ames and the Rev. Boughton – are narrated in a way that brings together transcendentalist admiration of human uniqueness, political urgencies of the mid-20th century, theological dilemmas, and ideas of domesticity, identity and belonging. The concepts of uprootedness (Simone Weil) and home as an asylum and prison (Tadeusz Sławek) are used to analyze Robinson’s novels. The article views the representation of home as a place that challenges the alleged American tolerance and open-mindedness and subverts traditional patterns of domesticity.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Research on emotional model of sports arena based on artificial intelligence emotion calculation

This paper summarizes the basic theory of emotion calculation and explains the concept of emotion. The classification and expression of emotion are given in this paper. It summarizes the research content of emotion calculation and introduces the typical emotion application system and the emotion model based on many kinds of ways. Based on Ian Wilson’s three-layer structure model, the human emotional system is divided into three levels of personality, mood and emotion, which establishes the personality space, mood space and emotional space in turn. At the same time, the interaction between the audiences’ immediate neighbors is introduced into the traditional personality model according to the characteristics of the arena environment. The emotional computing model of the audience in the group environment is established, and the model is tested by experiments.

Emotions, Motivation, and Character: A Phenomenological Perspective

In this paper, I wish to explore whether and how emotions build on a state of being motivated that is linked to character and requires the positive contribution of habit. Drawing on phenomenological accounts of motivation (most notably Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s), I argue that the relation between emotions and character depends on the institution of an emotional space, which is responsible for our sensitivity to the values of the felt situation and yet it is open to changes and revisions.

The Intangible Nation: Spatializing experiences of Britishness and belonging for young British Muslim women

Critical developments within studies of nationalism trace the spatially dynamic tonalities of the nation through everyday routines, practices and encounters, considering how bodies and objects perform, reproduce and resist ideas of national identity. These studies have turned towards the more-than-representational and conceptualizations of affective atmospheres to unpack the ties between people and the nation, exploring how the nation is felt and embodied. Drawing on interviews and small group discussions with 10 young British Muslim women in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, this paper contributes to this emerging body of literature in two ways. Firstly, it considers how religious and national identities intersect and are embodied in the everyday on an emotional and experiential level through the headscarf. Secondly it explores the affective spatialities of these women’s embodied identities, considering how emotional spaces, such as the home, affect how the nation is felt, (re)shaped and (per)formed in the intimate and mundane. Focusing upon the home and the headscarf, it demonstrates the complex relationship between the non-human, human, tangible and intangible, reconceptualizing how the nation is felt, experienced and lived across diffuse spaces and atmospheres. Through questioning how ‘Britishness’ is felt and spatialised, the paper highlights the complex nature of national identities and how they are navigated and embodied by young people, impacting feelings of belonging. It argues that national identities are not spatially and geographically uniform, but messy, emotional and situated, constantly becoming through everyday encounters across space.

The City of Murcia through the Analysis Proposed by the Geography of Perception and Behavior: A Dialectic between Rational and Emotional Space

The analysis and use of the interior space of the city is conditioned not only by economic and social factors, but also by the images or mental representations that people make of the places where they live or know through sources of information that exist. Mental imagery is influenced by the paths used in the journeys, the places that are frequented and the feelings of identification or rejection with the space object of daily use.We present the results of a significant sample of surveys (M = 215) and of the mental maps elaborated to know the perception of the city of Murcia by its inhabitants. Based on the results, proposals will be sought for improvement that contribute to the harmonious and sustainable growth of the city, correcting palpable deficiencies that may alter the quality of life in it.

Las pr�cticas ret�ricas y la inmoralidad de una cultura generizada

In this essay, I present a discussion related to the rhetorical practices potential to expose the immoral order sustained by a gendered culture. In this case, I explain the social impact produced by the official rhetorical practices of silencing through re-victimization during de public exposure of the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (1998-2002). Also, I describe how these the official practice of silencing generated an emotional pathetic space, as the outcome of the evident immorality of those who had the legal and moral responsibility to seek justice.

Concept Clarification of Moral Case Deliberation

Background: Health care professionals have encountered ethically difficult situations for decades in their clinical practice. Various clinical ethics support has been established in order to deal with these issues. Moral case deliberation is a new developed approach that deliberates over ethically difficult cases in clinical practice. However, there is lack of knowledge that describes the characteristics of the moral case deliberation and how this differs to related clinical ethics support where a concept analysis may clarify the differences. Aim: To analyse the concept of moral case deliberation and related concepts. Methods: Integrative literature review. Rodger’s evolutionary view of concept analysis has been used for clarification of the concept. Using specific keywords in the databases, searching for peer-reviewed academic paper published in English between 1995-2017 in the CINAHL, MEDLINE, Psych Info, Academic Search Elite and AMED. Results: Moral case deliberation (MCD) was defined as an approach with four specific characteristics: 1) Perspective sharing via dialogue, 2) training moral awareness, 3) moral emotional deliberation, and 4) moral support and joint learning. The presence of a facilitator who is trained in a specific method for the MCD reflection seemed to be important when stimulating the discussion from a patient perspective. Conclusions: Clarify the concept of moral case deliberation can be useful for healthcare professionals when choosing a facilitate-base reflection. Through a mutual dialogue and perspective sharing can MCD train staff members in moral awareness, create a space for emotions to be expressed and finally work as an platform for joint learning.

Modeling the 2D space of emotions based on the poincare plot of heart rate variability signal

Emotions mean accepting, understanding, and recognizing something with one's senses. The physiological signals generated from the internal organs of the body can objectively and realistically reflect changes in real-time human emotions and monitor the state of the body. In this study, the two-dimensional space-based emotion model was introduced on the basis of Poincare's two-dimensional plot of the signal of heart rate variability. Four main colors of psychology, blue, red, green, and yellow were used as a stimulant of emotion, and the ECG signals from 70 female students were recorded. Using extracted features of Poincare plot and heart rate asymmetry, two tree based models estimated the levels of arousal and valence with 0.05 mean square errors, determined an appropriate estimation of these two parameters of emotion. In the next stage of the study, four different emotions mean pleasure, anger, joy, and sadness, were classified using IF-THEN rules with the accuracy of 95.71%. The results show the color red is associated with more excitement and anger, while green has small anxiety. So, this system provides a measure for numerical comparison of mental states and makes it possible to model emotions for interacting with the computer and control mental states independently of the pharmaceutical methods.

Habitar y extrañar. La fenomenología del hogar y la arquitectura autobiográfica

espanolLa casa es uno de los temas mas recurrentes y que mas resonancia han tenido en el arte del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI, tanto en su dimension estetica como fenomenologica. Partiendo de esta realidad, el presente articulo se propone analizar la genealogia de la arquitectura domestica, desde una optica femenina, para evidenciar la transformacion de la casa y sus corolarios en un espacio-arma a la vez politico y catartico. A traves de una aproximacion sociologica, analitica y de genero, esta investigacion abordara la arquitectura domestica como una construccion tan politica como ontologica. Asi, las obras de las artistas analizadas abriran los paradigmas representacionales relacionados con la construccion domestica a nuevas estrategias de figuracion, capaces de atomizar la casa como un espacio puramente arquitectonico, para concebirlo como un espacio taxativamente emocional. EnglishThe house is one of the most recurrent subjects and with the most resonance in the art of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, both in its aesthetic and phenomenological aspect. According to this reality, this paper aims to analyze the genealogy of domestic architecture, from a feminine point of view, to demonstrate the transformation of the house and its corollaries in a political and cathartic space-weapon. Throughout a sociological, analytical and gender critical approach, this research will broach the domestic architecture as a political and ontological structure. Thus, the works of the analyzed artists in this research will open the representational paradigms to new strategies of figuration, related to domestic construction. These strategies will be capable of atomizing the house as a purely architectural space, to conceive it as a strictly emotional space.

Toward Modeling Emotional Crowds

This paper presents an Emotion Network structure for modeling crowd emotions to simulate socially emotional crowds. The emotion model focuses on entire crowds, builds individual emotion spaces as network nodes, embodies psychological linkages with relationship arcs, and clusters emotionally homogeneous crowds into EmotionTrees. According to the maximum value of the emotion component and the psychological distance, crowds are initialized as different trees. With relational distributions of crowd changes, agents move between different subgroups. Then, we construct emotion-oriented commands with subgroup constraints according to intergroup emotion theory. For execution, motion variables are calculated from emotion commands (i.e., emotion source-oriented orientation, and velocity and emotion strength-based motion clip selection). Experiments on bystanders, football fans, violent protestors, and guided marching behaviors demonstrate that the Emotion Network can improve crowd behavior modeling with particular attention to the impacts of group constraints and emotional characteristics, which can reflect environment stimuli and changes. The model can be integrated into physical crowd simulators as a high-level emotion manager, providing intelligent emotional support in improving the realism of human-like crowds.

심리적 안전감을 주는 주거지 보행 공간 특성에 관한 조사 연구 : 광주광역시 노후단독주거지역을 중심으로

Aged or poorly constructed residential areas have become a factor of direct and indirect stresses to the citizens, causing social problems and the psychological unrest of the citizens. Thus there is ongoing discussion on residential maintenance and redevelopment of various points of view to create safe residential areas. However, the actual results for the safety of residential areas are focused on functional and technical aspects rather than cognitive and emotional safety. As a result, psychological safety has been focused on a fragmentary plan that does not consider emotional aspects. Therefore, it is necessary to study a design of cognitive and emotional safe space based on understanding of psychological safety of urban people as a more microscopic and realistic view from the fragmentary viewpoint. The purpose of this study is to measure how much the urban residence realize psychological safety and spatial characteristics in the pedestrian space. The analysis is based on basic statistic to determine the spatial characteristics that give psychological safety. The results of this study showed that if the cognition of Placeness in the pedestrian space was higher, then people feel more psychological safety. Also, if people feel less psychological safety, the cognition of Connectivity in pedestrian space was higher.

The transformative-learning potential of feminist-inspired guided art gallery visits for people diagnosed with mental illness and addiction

Consciousness-raising practices at the heart of feminism remain one of the most vital components of transformative learning theory and provide the foundation for its constructivist underpinnings. Recently, there has been a call for educators to employ consciousness-raising practices outside of traditional classroom settings and to focus greater attention on the ‘extra-rational’ aspects of education – especially when working with marginalised adult learners. This is very much in keeping with engaged feminist pedagogy that allows space for emotions in learning. Reflecting on our experiences facilitating access to art programmes with people diagnosed with mental illness and addiction at the Art Gallery of Ontario, we highlight several examples of gender-related consciousness-raising that emerged. These experiences suggest that exploring mental illness through engagement with art in a social setting allows participants to deepen their understanding of art and the political implications of their life experiences. These tours also seem to serve as a powerful counterpoint to more clinical and masculine ways of framing mental health and well-being. Ultimately we argue that it is our explicitly feminist approach to transformative learning and not the existence of accessibility programmes themselves that holds the promise of redefining what and who museums are for.