Inducing genuine emotions in simulated speech-Based human-Machine interaction: The NIMITEK corpus

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-144

  Gnjatović, Milan ^a,b   Rösner, Dietmar ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Affective computing; emotional corpora; methods for emotion elicitation; methods of data collection

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; DATA COLLECTION; EMOTION ELICITATION; EMOTIONAL CORPORA; EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION; LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS; NON-TECHNICAL USERS; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; WIZARD OF OZ;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79960322982     PISSN: 19493045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-AFFC.2010.14     Document Type: Article

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