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Title:
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Towards an ontology for describing emotions
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Author:
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Miguel López, Juan; Gil Iranzo, Rosa María; García González, Roberto; Cearreta, Idoia; Garay, Nestor
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The study of emotion in human beings has traditionally been a
research interest area in disciplines such as psychology and sociology. The
appearance of affective computing paradigm has made it possible to include
findings from these disciplines in the development of affective interfaces.
Still, there is a lack of applications that take emotion related aspects into account.
This situation is mainly due to the great amount of proposed theoretical
models and the complexity of human emotions. Besides, the importance
that mobile computing area is acquiring has made necessary to bear
context related aspects in mind. The proposal presented in this paper is
based on a generic ontology for describing emotions and their detection and
expression systems taking contextual and multimodal elements into account.
The ontology is proposed as a way to develop a formal model that
can be easily computerized. Moreover, it is based on a standard, the Web
Ontology Language (OWL), which also makes ontologies easily shareable
and extensible. Once formalized as an ontology, the knowledge about emotions
is used in order to make computers more accessible, personalised and
adapted to user needs. |
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(c) Springer Verlag, 2008
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Springer Verlag
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