Electronic Emotion
Electronic Emotion

Author: Professor Colin B Grant

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9783039118663

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Electronic emotion is the emotion lived, relived or discovered through machines. It is the emotion that users of information and communication technologies (ICTs) feel when using or not using different devices. Through ICTs emotion is amplified, shaped, stereotyped and re-invented but at the same time sacrificed. This book addresses a number of questions such as: What does electronic emotion actually mean? How does emotion change when mediated by information and communication technologies? How are the production and the consumption of electronic and mediated emotion articulated? What emotional investment do people express in ICTs? The editors have brought together a distinctive group of scholars from multiple disciplines including social sciences, linguistics and information sciences to discuss and provide some answers to these questions.

Design for Emotion
Design for Emotion

Author: Trevor van Gorp

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0123865328

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Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions are explained, while real-world examples show how the design you create affects the emotions of your users.This isn't just another design theory book – it's imminently practical. Design for Emotion introduces the A.C.T. Model (Attract/Converse/Transact) a tool for helping designers create designs that intentionally trigger emotional responses. This book offers a way to harness emotions for improving the design of products, interfaces and applications while also enhancing learning and information processing. Design for Emotion will help your designs grab attention and communicate your message more powerfully, to more people. - Explains the relationship between emotions and product personalities - Details the most important dimensions of a product's personality - Examines models for understanding users' relationships with products - Explores how to intentionally design product personalities - Provides extensive examples from the worlds of product, web and application design - Includes a simple and effective model for creating more emotional designs

Sentimental Citizen
Sentimental Citizen

Author: George E. Marcus

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780271045986

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An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.

Human Emotions
Human Emotions

Author: Carroll E. Izard

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1489922091

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In recent years-especially the past decade, in sharp contrast to preceding decades-knowledge in the field of emotions has been steadily increasing. This knowledge comes from many different specialties: Emotion is a truly interdisciplinary subject. Workers in the fields of physiology, neurology, ethology, physiological psychology, personality and social psychology, clinical psychology and psychiatry, medicine, nursing, social work, and the clergy are all directly concerned with emotion. Professions such as law and architecture have an obvious concern with emotions as they affect human motives and needs. The various branches of art, especially the performing arts, certainly deal with the emotions, especially with the expression of emotions. Constantine Stanislavsky, the Russian theatrical genius, revolu tionized modem theater by developing a training method for actors and actresses that emphasized creating genuine emotion on the stage, the emotion appropriate to the character and the life situation being depicted. Indeed, one can hardly think of any human activity that is not related in some way to the field of emotion. Since the contributions to the subject of emotions come from so many different disciplines, it is difficult to find the important common themes that can yield an understanding of the field as a whole. This volume will attempt to make that task easier, but I recognize that no one can treat all of the diverse material expertly and in detail. My aim will be to represent all important types of contributions and perhaps point the way for further and more intensive study of special topics.

Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion
Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

Author: Athina Karatzogianni

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0230391346

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Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries.

Mind and Emotions
Mind and Emotions

Author: Matthew McKay

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1608824748

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We all have our own ways of handling stressful situations without letting emotions get the best of us, but some ways of coping work better than others. Short-term fixes that help us avoid or numb our emotions may temporarily alleviate sadness and anger, but can also end up causing anxiety, depression, chronic anger, and even physical health problems. If you struggle with overwhelming emotions and feel trapped by unhealthy patterns, this workbook is your ticket out. Mind and Emotions is a revolutionary universal treatment program for all emotional disorders that helps you discover which of the seven problematic coping styles is keeping you trapped in a cycle of emotional pain. Instead of working on difficulties like anxiety, anger, shame, and depression one by one, you’ll treat the root of all your emotional suffering at once. Drawing on evidence-based skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy, this workbook offers all the techniques you need to manage unwelcome feelings in effective and productive ways. Learn and practice the most effective coping skills: Clarifying and acting on your core values Mindfulness and acceptance Detaching from negative thoughts Self-soothing and relaxation exercises Assertiveness and interpersonal skills Gradually facing your strong emotions This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit — an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties.

Music and Emotion: Connecting Through Melody
Music and Emotion: Connecting Through Melody

Author: Harry Tekell

Publisher: Richards Education

Published:

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13:

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Music and Emotion: Connecting Through Melody delves into the profound relationship between music and our emotional lives. This comprehensive exploration takes you through the fundamental elements of music—melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, and texture—and their powerful effects on our emotions. Discover how music influences emotional development, serves as a tool for healing, and shapes our experiences in media and culture. From the early pioneers of emotional music to the latest technological advancements, this book offers a deep dive into how music moves us. Whether you're a musician, therapist, or music lover, Music and Emotion: Connecting Through Melody provides valuable insights and practical knowledge to enhance your understanding of music's emotional power.

Emotion in the Digital Age
Emotion in the Digital Age

Author: Darren Ellis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1351609718

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Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age. The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in, through, and with digital technologies. The digital landscape is vast, and as such, the authors focus on four key areas of digital practice: artificial intelligence, social media, mental health, and surveillance. Interrogating each area shows how emotion is commodified, symbolised, shared and experienced, and as such operates in multiple dimensions. This includes tracing the emotional impact of early mass media (e.g. cinema) through to efforts to programme AI agents with skills in emotional communication (e.g. mental health chatbots). This timely study offers theoretical, empirical and practical insight regarding the ways that digitisation is changing knowledge and experience of emotion and affective life. Crucially, this involves both the multiple versions of digital technologies designed to engage with emotion (e.g. emotional-AI) through to the broader emotional impact of living in digitally saturated environments. The authors argue that this constitutes a psycho-social way of being in which digital technologies and emotion operate as key dimensions of the ways we simultaneously relate to ourselves as individual subjects and to others as part of collectives. As such, Emotion in the Digital Age will prove important reading for students and researchers in emotion studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and related fields.

Fact and Value in Emotion
Fact and Value in Emotion

Author: Louis C. Charland

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008-03-06

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9027291667

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There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values', with 'description' not 'prescription'. The assumption behind this vision of emotion science is that it is possible to distinguish factual from evaluative aspects of affectivity and emotion, and study one without the other. But what really is the basis for distinguishing fact and value in emotion and affectivity? And can the distinction withstand careful scientific and philosophical scrutiny? The essays in this collection all suggest that the problems behind this vision of emotion science may be more complex than is commonly supposed.