Emotion Elicitation in a Computerized Gambling Game

We have designed a novel computer controlled environment that elicits emotions in subjects while they are uttering short identical phrases. The paradigm is based on Damasio's experiment for eliciting apprehension and is implemented in a voice activated computer game. For six subjects we have obtained recordings of dozens of identical sentences, which are coupled to events in the game – gain or loss of points. Prosodic features of the recorded utterances were extracted and classified. The resultant classifier gave 7885% recognition of presence/absence of apprehension.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ITRE
• Authors: Vered Aharonson, Noam Amir
• Keywords: Computer Controlled Environment, Identical Sentences, Information Technology, ITRE 2006, Short Identical Phrases