{"pk":25835,"title":"Assessing Emotions by Cursor Motions: An Affective Computing Approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Choice reaching, e.g., reaching a targeted object by hand,\ninvolves a dynamic online integration of perception, action and\ncognition, where neural activities of prefrontal cortical regions\nare concurrently coordinated with sensori-motor subsystems.\nOn the basis of this theoretical development, the authors\ninvestigate the extent to which cursor movements in a simple\nchoice-reaching task reveal people’s emotions, such as anxiety.\nThe results show that there is a strong correlation between\ncursor trajectory patterns and self-reported anxiety in male\nparticipants. Because computer cursors are ubiquitous, our\ntrajectory analysis can be augmented to existing affective\ncomputing technologies.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"affective computing; cursor motion; choice\nreaching"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vf4s0vp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Takashi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yamauchi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Texas A&M University","department":""},{"first_name":"Hwaryong","middle_name":"","last_name":"Seo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Texas A&M University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yoonsuck","middle_name":"","last_name":"Choe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Texas A&M University","department":""},{"first_name":"Casady","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bowman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Texas A&M University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kunchen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xiao","name_suffix":"","institution":"Texas A&M University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25835/galley/15459/download/"}]}