Emotions and heart rate while sitting on a chair
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Music, Heart Rate, and Emotions in the Context of Stimulating Technologies
ACII '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
The effects of emotionally worded synthesized speech on the ratings of emotions and voice quality
ACII'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Affective computing and intelligent interaction - Volume Part I
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The present study investigated the effects of brief synthesized spoken words with emotional content on the ratings of emotions and heart rate responses. Twenty participants' heart rate functioning was measured while they listened to a set of emotionally negative, neutral, and positive words produced by speech synthesizers. At the end of the experiment, ratings of emotional experiences were also collected. The results showed that the ratings of the words were in accordance with their valence. Heart rate deceleration was significantly the strongest and most prolonged to the negative stimuli. The findings are the first suggesting that brief spoken emotionally toned words evoke a similar heart rate response pattern found earlier for more sustained emotional stimuli.