The Role of Emotions in Art Evaluation

© 2014, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Emotion is an important component in any evaluation of an artwork. Research into emotion is a growing field, and methods for evaluating emotions in artworks is an area where research is rapidly expanding. This chapter outlines the basic theories of emotion and develops an understanding of the state of the art in emotion evaluation for interactive digital art. The component process model of Scherer is discussed and then a number of examples of evaluation of emotion in interactive art are presented, including a closer look at video games as a form of interactive art

A Formal Approach to Model Emotional Agents Behaviour in Disaster Management Situations

Abstract. Emotions in Agent and Multi-Agent Systems change their behaviour to a more ’natural ’ way of performing tasks thus increasing believability. This has various implications on the overall performance of a system. In particular in situations where emotions play an important role, such as disaster management, it is a challenge to infuse artificial emotions into agents, especially when a plethora of emotion theories are yet to be fully accepted. In this work, we develop a formal model for agents demonstrating emotional behaviour in emergency evacuation. We use state-based formal methods to define agent behaviour in two lay-ers; one that deals with non-emotional and one dealing with emotional behaviour. The emotional level takes into account emotions structures, personality traits and emotion contagion models. A complete formal def-inition of the evacuee agent is given followed by a short discussion on visual simulation and results to demonstrate the refinement of the for-mal model into code