RE: [humanmarkup-comment] HMU.newmedia: Emotion

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf

There is a sample of one chapter.  I am reacting only to that.

Advocates a process model for emotions.  This is what we talked 
about earlier.  A model as simple as IDEF0 could be used to organize 
or describe a human emotional process model, however, for a real time 
system, the scene graph model such as expressed in VRML or IDEF0 will be 
more useful for actually creating a program because IDEF0 does not 
account for sequencing/time.  Also, color is an inadequate metaphor 
for emotion.  If a process, it is more like a musical note with a 
duration, (attack, decay, sustain, release).

What you are providing  Ranjeeth, is a pairwise codelist.  This is useful 
for creating lists of events or states that must be accounted for 
but unless one has a process model, there is no useful way to organize this 
in a real time model.  It is more a select list.   We really do 
need a real time model and the most widely used on the web is VRML. 
Scene graph concepts are better for this than XML.  Much better.

len

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Emotion As Process

1.  Object, causes, events 2. appraisal  3.  Physiological change  4.
Action tendancy/action/expression 
5.  Regulation

My comments:

A basic IDEF0 model (inputs, controls, outputs, mechanism) can model this
initially.  Requires 
additional layers for timing, sequencing.  Very complex for anything above a
single human 
object.

Event -> (process under set of controls - internally regulated systems
(recursive processes)) -> output  
(note:misses feedback loop)

Understand moods and emotions as internal processes that route to external
expressions including 
physiological reactions.  Events are seldom the only cause of a response.
The output depends 
on the internal processes that cascade outputs up the process nest.

Account for emotional transference:  directing output at target not
originally cause of stimulus. 
Thus creating incoherent or phasing effects in the feedback (loss of
predictability).  Discuss effect 
on movement toward away or circling goal, an incoherent path (loss of
focus).

Multiple conditions such as sensitivity to particular inputs affect results.
Some people are very 
aware of social conditions (zeitgeist) and react as they think they are
expected to.  Some are 
not aware of this.  Awareness as a summary of domains of focus is very
important.  Some inputs never 
reach some processes.  Filters are created to accept or reject some stimuli
and internally, the 
relationship to the sender determines the reaction based on the event type
(who do you love? 
what have they done for you lately?)

Emotional effects ramp up and down.  They do not endure.  ADSR.  They are
more like a musical 
note than a color.  If a color, they cycle (like a real mood ring).  They
also habituate 
(don't always get the same response over time because the human habituates
to the stimulus).

Outputs:  set body states (posture, color, tone of conversation), set
actions (converse, 
move (toward, away, circle), inaction)


-----Original Message-----
From: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga [mailto:rkthunga@humanmarkup.org]

We can eventually "spin-off" the emotions frameworks from our HM.frameworks
document, as it is sufficiently developed...

----------
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga



EMOTIONS (***AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS)
-----------
    generalWestern
        Amusement   weariness
 Anger    patience
 Appreciation   envy
 Caution    rashness
 Closeness   distance
 Completion   incompleteness
 Courage    cowardice
 Discovery   confusion
 Familiarity   mystery
 Fear    security
 Gain    loss
 Guilt    innocence
 Happiness   unhappiness
 Love    hatred
 Pain    pleasure
 Pity    cruelty
 Pride    shame
 Relaxation   stress
 Respect    disrespect
 Surprise    expectation
 Togetherness    privacy
 Wonder     commonplace
 Sorrow    reverence
 Regret    Relief
 Aggravation   Cheerfulness
 Dejection   Rejoicing
 Lamentation   Amusement
 Weariness   Wit
 Dullness   Humorless
    Eastern


References:
-----

Nico H. Frijda.
"The Emotions": Studies in Emotion & Social Interaction.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/04/69/


Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Nixon" <rnixon@qdyn.com>
To: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>
Cc: "OASIS Comment" <humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [humanmarkup-comment] HMU.newmedia: Emotion


> Here is a paper by Sally Planalp of the University of Montana that could
also
> act as a reference.
>
> Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
>
> http://assets.cambridge.org/0521553156/sample/0521553156WSN01.pdf
>
> Rob
>
> Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reference.  I personally am not...if you have a good URL
> > reference or summarize the content, that would help.
> >
> > Regardless, I've added the reference to the HM.frameworks document under
> > EMOTIONS.
> > ------
> >
> > Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
> >
>
>
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