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@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."
-Rodney Dangerfield
#acting #coaching #inspiration

From Flat to Feeling: A Feasibility and Impact Study on Dynamic Facial Emotions in AI-Generated Avatars
Pegah Salehi, Sajad Amouei Sheshkal, Vajira Thambawita, P{\aa}l Halvorsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13477

From Flat to Feeling: A Feasibility and Impact Study on Dynamic Facial Emotions in AI-Generated Avatars
Dynamic facial emotion is essential for believable AI-generated avatars; however, most systems remain visually inert, limiting their utility in high-stakes simulations such as virtual training for investigative interviews with abused children. We introduce and evaluate a real-time architecture fusing Unreal Engine 5 MetaHuman rendering with NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face to translate vocal prosody into high-fidelity facial expressions on photorealistic child avatars. We implemented a distributed t…

Temporal Dynamics of Emotions in Italian Online Soccer Fandoms
Salvatore Citraro, Giovanni Mauro, Emanuele Ferragina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11934 https…

Temporal Dynamics of Emotions in Italian Online Soccer Fandoms
This study investigates the emotional dynamics of Italian soccer fandoms through computational analysis of user-generated content from official Instagram accounts of 83 teams across Serie A, Serie B, and Lega Pro during the 2023-24 season. By applying sentiment analysis to fan comments, we extract temporal emotional patterns and identify distinct clusters of fan bases with similar preseason expectations. Drawing from complex systems theory, we characterize joy as displaying anti-bursty temporal…

Object personification in #autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it - PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/
Object personification is the attrib…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions:
🎵 Boogie Wonderland
#Earth #Wind #FirewithTheEmotions
https://djbacksongs.bandcamp.com/track/earth-wind-fire-with-the-emotions-boogie-wonderland-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AzScsnTDwXtu1S5o30fry

When Your Favorite Song Plays, Your Brain 'Physically Embodies' Music, Science Shows
https://studyfinds.org/brain-cells-synchronize-to-music/

MERba: Multi-Receptive Field MambaVision for Micro-Expression Recognition
Xinglong Mao, Shifeng Liu, Sirui Zhao, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14468

MERba: Multi-Receptive Field MambaVision for Micro-Expression Recognition
Micro-expressions (MEs) are brief, involuntary facial movements that reveal genuine emotions, holding significant potential in psychological diagnosis and criminal investigations. Despite notable advances in automatic ME recognition (MER), existing methods still struggle to jointly capture localized muscle activations and global facial dependencies, both critical for recognizing subtle emotional cues. To tackle this challenge, we propose MERba, a novel multi-receptive field architecture tailore…

Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: A Study of Mental Health Vlogging by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube
Jiaying Lizzy Liu, Yan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10932

Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: A Study of Mental Health Vlogging by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube
Individuals with schizophrenia frequently experience intense emotions and often turn to vlogging as a medium for emotional expression. While previous research has predominantly focused on text based disclosure, little is known about how individuals construct narratives around emotions and emotional experiences in video blogs. Our study addresses this gap by analyzing 200 YouTube videos created by individuals with schizophrenia. Drawing on media research and self presentation theories, we develo…

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together the voices of early-career researchers from multiple fields, it explores how AI systems that simulate or interpret human emotions are reshaping our interactions in areas such as education, healthcare, mental health, caregiving, and digital life. The analysis is structured around four central themes: the ethical implications of emotional AI, …