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Emotion & Empathy (Papers)

Wednesday
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

 

Studying Antecedents of Emotional Experiences in Interactive Contexts

Sascha Mahlke
Manfred Thüring

Presents a comprehensive approach to the experimental study of user experience processes and illustrates its application by an exemplary study on variations of mobile digital audio player design properties.

 

Patterns of empathy in online communication

Ulrike Pfeil
Panayiotis Zaphiris

We clarify the phenomenon of online empathy. Our code scheme goes beyond existing research and provide a framework for analysing the nature and degree of empathy within an online community.

 

Expressing Emotion in Text-based Communication

Jeff Hancock
Chris Landrigan
Courtney Silver

The present study examines how positive and negative affect is expressed and assessed in computer-mediated communication, providing insight into how emotion is linguistically enacted in text-based conversation.

 

Exploring Affective Design for Physical Controls

Colin Swindells
Karon E. MacLean
Kellogg S. Booth
Michael J. Meitner

Case-study of emotional design for physical controls. Assists designers i) improve emotional appropriateness, and ii) better understand resulting performance trade-offs, when designing ubiquitous computing systems.