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Modern dance conveys complex emotions through continuous bodily movement, but assigning recorded motion to continuous affective coordinates remains challenging. This study examines the mapping of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)-informed kinematic descr...

There are still challenges in speech emotion recognition, as the representation capability of single-modal information is limited, there are difficulties in capturing continuous emotional transitions in discrete emotion annotations, and the issues of...

Safety-critical control environments, such as nuclear power plant main control rooms, involve multi-operator collaboration, continuous information exchange, and stringent reliability requirements, making operator-state monitoring important for task p...

Emotion-aware music recommendations has gained increasing attention in recent years, as music comes with the ability to regulate human emotions. Exploiting emotional information has the potential to improve recommendation performances. However, conve...

With the continuous development of cross-modality generation, audio-driven talking face generation has made substantial advances in terms of speech content and mouth shape, but existing research on talking face emotion generation is still relatively...

The Emotional Quotient Inventory: Youth Version (EQ-i:YV) assesses how young people perceive their emotions, relationships, coping with pressure, adaptability, and general mood. We evaluated whether its five domains provide a coherent yet differentia...

With the continuous rise of information technology and social networks, and the explosive growth of network text information, text sentiment analysis technology now plays a vital role in public opinion monitoring and product development analysis on n...

There are few studies on the representation of older people regarding aids and assistive devices and even fewer that incorporate more inclusive views (gender, emotions, anti-ageist, territorial or land approach) as well as virtual or land ethnography...

Driver emotion recognition constitutes a fundamental pillar of intelligent cockpit systems, playing a pivotal role in enhancing driving safety and optimizing human–machine interaction. Despite the integration of vehicle sensor data in recent mu...

In recent years, substantial research has focused on emotion recognition using multi-stream speech representations. In existing multi-stream speech emotion recognition (SER) approaches, effectively extracting and fusing speech features is crucial. To...

We propose a Dual-Channel assisted Music Emotion Perception and Visualization (DC-MEPV) framework designed for ambient lighting in intelligent vehicle cockpits, addressing the increasing demand for advanced human–machine interaction in the auto...

Due to the advantages of many aspects of the dimensional emotion model, continuous dimensional emotion recognition from audio has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Features and dimensional emotion labels on different time scales have di...

Nowadays, educational software across all learning levels is increasingly enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI), primarily through content generation or post-session learning analytics. However, most existing systems remain weakly connected to l...

With the continuous evolution of social media, users are increasingly inclined to express their personal emotions on digital platforms by integrating information presented in multiple modalities. Within this context, research on image–text sent...

Facial expressions are one of the most powerful ways to depict specific patterns in human behavior and describe the human emotional state. However, despite the impressive advances of affective computing over the last decade, automatic video-based sys...

Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and impaired daily functioning. Wearable monitoring systems have emerged as promising tools for continuous mental health assessment; however, they...

Body image is a mental representation that a person has, which could become a body dissatisfaction due to the pressure exerted by the culture, affecting several life stages specially in adolescents. The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometr...

Product reviews become more important in the buying decision-making process of customers. Exploiting and analyzing customer product reviews in sentiments also become an advantage for businesses and researchers in e-commerce platforms. This study prop...

The continuous evolution of video technologies is now primarily focused on enhancing 3D video paradigms and consistently improving their quality, realism, and level of immersion. Both the research community and the industry work towards improving 3D...

Problem gambling is a gambling disorder often described as continued gambling in the face of increasing losses. In this article, we explored problem gambling behaviour and its psychological determinants. We considered the assumption of stability in r...

The research identifies and substantiates the problem of quality deterioration in the sentiment classification of text collections identical in composition and characteristics, but staggered over time. It is shown that the quality of sentiment classi...

Most artistic expressions are conveyed through images (e.g., painting) and audio (e.g., music), and deep learning has been successfully applied to neural style transfer within each of these modalities. However, there is still a lack of deep models th...

With accelerating climate change and the urgent need to cut carbon emissions, global focus has turned to the existing building stock and its renovation. Sustainable renovation helps to achieve better energy performance and gain wider sustainability b...

People often develop strong emotional connections with their dogs and consider them to be members of the family. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel validated tool, the Mourning Dog Questionnaire, to recognise and evaluate the mourning p...

Prolonged displacement can transform temporary settlements into enduring socio-spatial environments. This article examines selected dimensions of social sustainability in Antakya following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes. It combines a visual...

Immersive theatre, as a contemporary performance form that integrates narrative, space, and sensory participation, has gradually expanded from entertainment consumption to a practice of cultural representation and memory construction. Audiences are n...

The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) has increased by about 3% per year over the last two decades. Continuous Insulin Subcutaneous Therapy (CSII) is widely used in the pediatric population with diabetes; however, it requires more preparation by the...

The rapid institutional and technological transformations of the 2020–2025 period have had a significant impact on teacher professional identity. Drawing on Rosa’s social acceleration thesis and Harvey’s concept of time–space...

Historic streets, as living heritage environments, preserve everyday cultural practices while facing increasing digital mediation in tourism and daily life. This study examines how a digital sense of place is constructed online in the Ming–Qing...

With the advancement of the “dual carbon” goals, the electric vehicle market has experienced explosive growth, and user review mining has become key data support for industrial quality improvement and low-carbon transportation transition....

Synthetic data has emerged as a significant alternative to more costly and time-consuming data collection methods. This assertion is particularly salient in the context of training facial expression recognition (FER) and generation models. The EmoSty...

The international adoption of early institutionalized children offers the opportunity to examine the quality of mental representations of attachment and their possible revision post-adoption, thus contributing to the debate on the continuity/disconti...

Youth mental health concerns, including substance abuse, continue to rise. With high co-morbidity rates and a marked lack of representation from diverse groups in study conceptualization, measurement, and implementation, efforts to understand factors...

A single subjective bodily experience is at the core of sports tourism activities, but the current literature on sports tourism largely ignores both the continuous and ephemeral experiential processes of individuals in mobile sports activities from a...

This study aims to recognize the possible role of social media in forming xenophobia and hate speech against Syrian refugees and to understand the reinforcing causes and negative effects of that speech on the refugees, as well as the refugees’...

This review uniquely integrates open access dataset taxonomy with methodological trends in stress analysis, outlining the experimental framework and highlighting key gaps in reproducibility and FAIR compliance. In this context, stress induction metho...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately affects certain sub-populations, including people with experience of incarceration (PWEI). Little is known about how perceptions of HCV and treatment have changed despite simplifications in testing and treat...

Both voluntary mental imagery and dream imagery involve multisensory representations without externally present stimuli that can be categorized as offline perceptions. Due to common mechanisms, correlations between multisensory dream imagery profiles...

Women’s participation and leadership in technology and entrepreneurship are crucial for advancing innovation and ensuring inclusive economic development. Despite progress in gender equality, women in tech face challenges like under-representati...

Gendered media framing continues to restrict women’s political representation in Southern Africa, where news narratives often emphasise emotion and personality over policy and competence. This systematic review analysed empirical and grey liter...

There is sufficient evidence proving the impact that negative lifestyle choices have on people’s health and wellness. Changing unhealthy behaviours requires raising people’s self-awareness and also providing healthcare experts with a thorough and con...

Perceived authenticity may strengthen the credibility of virtual cultural heritage communication and foster sustained cultural engagement, yet authenticity theory remains insufficiently translated into actionable design guidance. This study employed...

Catullus invokes the love gods Venus and Cupid/Amor some twenty times within the relatively exiguous corpus of his surviving poems. On occasion, their names seem to be little more than metonyms for love, desire or sexual attractiveness; but the moder...

We find ourselves situated within a world that can be experienced visually, for the first time, in its wholeness. Using conceptual analysis, we intend to show that notions born within the practice of habitation, such as the sense of place, place atta...

Digital health systems for older adults with chronic diseases must support task completion, risk communication, and emotional engagement. However, virtual avatars and user interfaces are usually generated separately, which can weaken the consistency...

Brain–computer interface (BCI) systems aim to establish direct communication pathways between neural activity and external devices, enabling interaction without relying on conventional neuromuscular mechanisms. This study investigates the feasi...

Background: The exacerbation of psychosocial problems among children and adolescents during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic necessitates an assessment of the long-term mental health impact of pandemic interventions. Focusing on both...

Traditional assessment practices in multilingual higher education continue to privilege text-based and monolingual demonstrations of learning, often limiting multilingual students’ opportunities to draw on their full linguistic repertoires and...

Financial markets are increasingly shaped by heterogeneous information sources, including trading behaviors, order-book dynamics, textual events, investor sentiment, and macroeconomic conditions. These signals are often asynchronous, noisy, partially...

Canine-assisted interactions (CAIs) have been explored to offer therapeutic benefits to human participants in various contexts, from addressing cancer-related fatigue to treating post-traumatic stress disorder. Despite their widespread adoption, ther...