The six emotion-face clock as a tool for continuously rating discrete emotional responses to music
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- Conference Proceeding
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2013, 7900 LNCS pp. 1 - 18
- Issue Date:
- 2013-10-10
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Recent instruments measuring continuous self-reported emotion responses to music have tended to use dimensional rating scale models of emotion such as valence (happy to sad). However, numerous retrospective studies of emotion in music use checklist style responses, usually in the form of emotion words, (such as happy, angry, sad...) or facial expressions. A response interface based on six simple sketch style emotion faces aligned into a clock-like distribution was developed with the aim of allowing participants to quickly and easily rate emotions in music continuously as the music unfolded. We tested the interface using six extracts of music, one targeting each of the six faces: 'Excited' (at 1 o'clock), 'Happy' (3), 'Calm' (5), 'Sad' (7), 'Scared' (9) and 'Angry' (11). 30 participants rated the emotion expressed by these excerpts on our 'emotion-face-clock'. By demonstrating how continuous category selections (votes) changed over time, we were able to show that (1) more than one emotion-face could be expressed by music at the same time and (2) the emotion face that best portrayed the emotion the music conveyed could change over time, and (3) the change could be attributed to changes in musical structure. Implications for research on orientation time and mixed emotions are discussed. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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