CAAT: a discrete approach to emotion assessment

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Cardoso;Teresa Romão;Nuno Correia

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;CITI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;CITI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Caparica, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this work we present a new way of assessing affective states through direct selection of emotion words from a discrete set. The proposed tool, the Circumplex Affect Assessment Tool (CAAT), is built upon Robert Plutchik's circumplex model of emotions and, as far as our preliminary tests have shown, is a pleasant and reliable way to assess user's affective states, with significant correlations with Self Assessment Manikin ratings.