Positive Emotion Amplification by Representing Excitement Scene with TV Chat Agents
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Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma,Nara 630-0192, Japan
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Psychological Process Team, Robotics Project, BZP, RIKEN, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
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Art Science Department, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka 585-8555, Japan
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Sensors 2020, 20(24), 7330; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247330
Received: 30 October 2020 / Revised: 14 December 2020 / Accepted: 16 December 2020 / Published: 21 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Robots and Sensors)
This paper proposes emotion amplification for TV chat agents allowing users to get more excited in TV sports programs, and a model that estimates the excitement level of TV programs based on the number of social comment posts. The proposed model extracts the exciting intervals from social comments to the program scenes. By synchronizing recorded video streams and the intervals, the agents may talk with the user dynamically changing the frequency and volume of upbeat utterances, increasing the excitement of the user. To test these agents, participants watched TV content under three conditions: without an agent, with four agents that utter with a flat voice, and with four agents with emotion amplification. Results from 24 young adult Japanese individuals showed that their arousal of participants’ subjective and physiological emotional responses were boosted because of the agents, enhancing their motivation to interact with the agent in the future. With empirical evidence, this paper supports these expectations and demonstrates that these agents can amplify the positive emotions of TV watchers, enhancing their motivation to interact with the agent in the future.
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Nishimura, S.; Kimata, D.; Sato, W.; Kanbara, M.; Fujimoto, Y.; Kato, H.; Hagita, N. Positive Emotion Amplification by Representing Excitement Scene with TV Chat Agents. Sensors 2020, 20, 7330. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247330
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Nishimura S, Kimata D, Sato W, Kanbara M, Fujimoto Y, Kato H, Hagita N. Positive Emotion Amplification by Representing Excitement Scene with TV Chat Agents. Sensors. 2020; 20(24):7330. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247330
Chicago/Turabian StyleNishimura, Shogo; Kimata, Daiki; Sato, Wataru; Kanbara, Masayuki; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Kato, Hirokazu; Hagita, Norihiro. 2020. "Positive Emotion Amplification by Representing Excitement Scene with TV Chat Agents" Sensors 20, no. 24: 7330. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20247330
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