Pupillary responses to emotionally provocative stimuli
ETRA '00 Proceedings of the 2000 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Pupil size variation as an indication of affective processing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Application of affective computing in humanComputer interaction
Prediction of affective states through non-invasive thermal camera and EMG recordings
ACII'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Affective computing and intelligent interaction - Volume Part II
Towards multimodal sentiment analysis: harvesting opinions from the web
ICMI '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces
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Earlier investigations of pupil size variation during auditory stimulation involved delivery of simple auditory tones. In this study, we investigated pupil size variation in response to auditory stimuli which involved verbal stories In our study, twenty four participants listened to scenarios with headphones while sitting in front of an eye tracker and rated stories on two bipolar dimensions: emotional valence and arousal. We analyzed pupil data after finishing subjective ratings of scenario. The results showed that the pupil size is significantly large during the story which carried strongly negative sentiment compared to the story with neutral content. To sum up, our results showed that systematically designed scenarios with highly arousing negative sentiment significantly affected the subjects' physiological pupil reaction as well as their subjective experiences. In the future, it might be possible to use pupil size variation as a predictor for sentimental content of scenarios. Auditory emotion-related cues might also be utilized to modulate the users' emotional reactions in affective computing.