Computational Affective Sociology

  • Authors:
  • William Sims Bainbridge

  • Affiliations:
  • National Science Foundation, Virginia, USA 22230

  • Venue:
  • Affect and Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An alternative tradition concerning emotion in human-centered computing is based on sociological conceptions of personality and the emotional meanings of decisions. This essay summarizes work in this area, beginning with the classic Big 5 personality dimensions and the semantic differential, then illustrates recent work with two projects that developed software research tools. The first builds on the semantic differential to measure an individual's self-esteem across several dimensions, and the second assesses the subject's reactions to 2,000 common events in terms of 20 emotions.