Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
16 results found in Affective Computing.
- Affective Congruency
- The degree to which a system's sensory outputs, interactions, and feedback align emotionally with the user's current affective state and the emotional meaning the user attaches to the experience. Dist…
- Affective Haptics (Emotional Haptics)
- A subfield of haptic interaction design concerned with using tactile and kinaesthetic feedback — vibration, pressure, temperature, squeezing, stroking, heartbeat-like pulsation — to communicate, evoke…
- Affective Touch (Social Touch, Emotional Touch)
- The emotional and social dimension of touch, distinct from discriminative touch that identifies object properties. Affective touch is mediated primarily by C-tactile (CT) afferents in hairy skin and p…
- Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN, Temporal Bayesian Network)
- A probabilistic graphical model that represents sequences of variables over time, extending standard Bayesian networks to handle temporal relationships. In accessibility and affective computing contex…
- Ekman Basic Emotions (Basic Emotions, Ekman's Six Basic Emotions)
- A taxonomy proposed by psychologist Paul Ekman that identifies six cross-culturally recognisable emotional expressions — happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise — as the building blocks…
- Emotional Mediation Hypothesis
- A theoretical account, originating in work by Palmer and colleagues, that explains cross-modal associations between sensory attributes (such as colors and musical timbres) as being mediated by shared …
- FaceReader (Noldus FaceReader)
- A commercial facial-expression recognition software (developed by Noldus) that uses computer vision and deep learning to automatically classify faces into basic emotions (neutral, happy, sad, angry, s…
- Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
- A comprehensive, anatomically based system for describing all visually discernible facial movements, originally developed by Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen in 1977. FACS decomposes facial expressions …
- Facial Affect (Facial Expression of Emotion, Emotional Facial Expression)
- The display of emotion through facial movements, including changes in the position of the eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and other facial features that communicate a person's emotional or mental state. Facial…
- Frisson (Aesthetic Chills, Musical Chills, Piloerection)
- A psychophysiological response to music, art, or other aesthetic stimuli characterised by a pleasurable shiver or chills sensation accompanied by piloerection (goosebumps) and transient increases in h…
- Mediated Social Touch (Remote Touch, Tele-touch, Haptic Telepresence)
- The use of haptic technology to simulate or communicate social touch gestures — such as stroking, squeezing, patting, or hugging — between people who are physically separated. Mediated social touch sy…
- Mood (Affect, Affective State)
- In affective computing and music research, the emotional quality a stimulus evokes in a listener or viewer, commonly characterized along dimensions such as valence (pleasant–unpleasant) and arousal (c…
- Musical Emotion (Music-Induced Emotion, Emotional Response to Music)
- The emotional content perceived in, or felt in response to, a piece of music, typically analysed along dimensions such as valence and arousal or via categorical labels (cheerful, tense, calm, sad, ene…
- PrEmo (Product Emotion Measurement Instrument)
- A non-verbal self-report tool for measuring emotional responses, developed by Pieter Desmet. PrEmo presents users with 14 cartoon-like icons representing seven positive emotions (joy, admiration, prid…
- Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM)
- A nonverbal pictorial instrument developed by Bradley and Lang (1994) for measuring the affective dimensions of valence, arousal, and dominance. Respondents select from a row of stylised manikin figur…
- Valence-Arousal Model (VA Model, Circumplex Model, Valence-Arousal Space)
- A two-dimensional model of affect, introduced by Russell (1980), that represents emotional states along two orthogonal axes: valence (pleasant versus unpleasant) and arousal (activated versus deactiva…