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Papers by Daniela Hekiert
Emotion, Dec 1, 2016
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran ( = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural response biases. Results are discussed in terms of possible explanations for country-level differences and suggestions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
Roczniki Psychologiczne, 2019
People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article prese... more People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article presents theories and methodologies that concern emotional vocalizations at the intersection of psychology and digital signal processing. Specifically, it demonstrates the encoding (production) and decoding (recognition) of emotional sounds, including the review and comparison of strategies in database design, parameterization, and classification. Whereas psychology predominantly focuses on the subjective recognition of emotional vocalizations, digital signal processing relies on automated and thus more objective vocal affect measures. The article aims to compare these two approaches and suggest methods of combining them to achieve a more complex insight into the vocal communication of emotions.
Roczniki Psychologiczne, Nov 19, 2019
People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article prese... more People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article presents theories and methodologies that concern emotional vocalizations at the intersection of psychology and digital signal processing. Specifically, it demonstrates the encoding (production) and decoding (recognition) of emotional sounds, including the review and comparison of strategies in database design, parameterization, and classification. Whereas psychology predominantly focuses on the subjective recognition of emotional vocalizations, digital signal processing relies on automated and thus more objective vocal affect measures. The article aims to compare these two approaches and suggest methods of combining them to achieve a more complex insight into the vocal communication of emotions.
2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2020
A new VR application for voice and speech training has emerged from a problem observable in every... more A new VR application for voice and speech training has emerged from a problem observable in everyday life: an anxiety of public speaking. In the design process, we incorporated both domain knowledge of experts as well as research with end-users in order to explore the needs and the context of the problem. Functionalities of the prototype are the effect of user-centered process in order to suit best their needs and the way they interact with VR environment.
2018 II National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TechSpo’18: Power of Algorithms, 2018
The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel corpus of speech POLAC - Politeness Across Cultures... more The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel corpus of speech POLAC - Politeness Across Cultures and to present some preliminary results on acoustic correlates of intended politeness. It was created for cross-cultural comparative studies on Polish and Canadians. It consists of 180 three-minutes long conversations in an arranged situation where the examined person was interviewing a non-native patient with a broken arm.In two experimental conditions, suggestions were made: to be polite, to be unemotional and in the control group there were no suggestions. Recordings were analyzed with voice quality and prosody parameterization methods as well as MFCC-GMM emotion recognition algorithm.The following observations for polite speech were made: in spite of similar F0, Canadians tend to modulate speech significantly more than Polish. The intonation was more flat and monotonous for Polish. No significant differences were found in voice timbre. For both, Polish and Canadians, polite speech t...
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; N = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran (d = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural resp...
Cultures vary in terms of emotional display rules, which include the expression of satisfaction a... more Cultures vary in terms of emotional display rules, which include the expression of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. In Poland there is a norm of negativity, deriving from a culture of complaining (Wojciszke & Baryła, 2005), whereas in Canada, there is a tendency to express happiness (Safdar, Friedlmeier, Matsumoto, Yoo, Kwantes, Kakai, & Shigemasu, E., 2009). In the present research project, norms and values regarding smiling in public situations, norms regarding the affirmation of life and complaining, as well as individual measures of optimism (LOT-R) and well-being (SWLS) were measured among Poles and Canadians. The results showed that the cultural display rules endorsed by Canadian students affirmed smiling and positivity in social life more than those for Polish students. Contrary to expectations, optimism and the level of satisfaction with their own lives were significantly higher among Poles than Canadians. This may indicate a compensatory mechanism between normative display...
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; N = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran (d = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural response biases. Results are discussed in terms of possible explanations for country-level differences and suggestions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Emotion, Dec 1, 2016
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran ( = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural response biases. Results are discussed in terms of possible explanations for country-level differences and suggestions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
Roczniki Psychologiczne, 2019
People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article prese... more People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article presents theories and methodologies that concern emotional vocalizations at the intersection of psychology and digital signal processing. Specifically, it demonstrates the encoding (production) and decoding (recognition) of emotional sounds, including the review and comparison of strategies in database design, parameterization, and classification. Whereas psychology predominantly focuses on the subjective recognition of emotional vocalizations, digital signal processing relies on automated and thus more objective vocal affect measures. The article aims to compare these two approaches and suggest methods of combining them to achieve a more complex insight into the vocal communication of emotions.
Roczniki Psychologiczne, Nov 19, 2019
People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article prese... more People use their voices to communicate not only verbally but also emotionally. This article presents theories and methodologies that concern emotional vocalizations at the intersection of psychology and digital signal processing. Specifically, it demonstrates the encoding (production) and decoding (recognition) of emotional sounds, including the review and comparison of strategies in database design, parameterization, and classification. Whereas psychology predominantly focuses on the subjective recognition of emotional vocalizations, digital signal processing relies on automated and thus more objective vocal affect measures. The article aims to compare these two approaches and suggest methods of combining them to achieve a more complex insight into the vocal communication of emotions.
2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2020
A new VR application for voice and speech training has emerged from a problem observable in every... more A new VR application for voice and speech training has emerged from a problem observable in everyday life: an anxiety of public speaking. In the design process, we incorporated both domain knowledge of experts as well as research with end-users in order to explore the needs and the context of the problem. Functionalities of the prototype are the effect of user-centered process in order to suit best their needs and the way they interact with VR environment.
2018 II National Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference TechSpo’18: Power of Algorithms, 2018
The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel corpus of speech POLAC - Politeness Across Cultures... more The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel corpus of speech POLAC - Politeness Across Cultures and to present some preliminary results on acoustic correlates of intended politeness. It was created for cross-cultural comparative studies on Polish and Canadians. It consists of 180 three-minutes long conversations in an arranged situation where the examined person was interviewing a non-native patient with a broken arm.In two experimental conditions, suggestions were made: to be polite, to be unemotional and in the control group there were no suggestions. Recordings were analyzed with voice quality and prosody parameterization methods as well as MFCC-GMM emotion recognition algorithm.The following observations for polite speech were made: in spite of similar F0, Canadians tend to modulate speech significantly more than Polish. The intonation was more flat and monotonous for Polish. No significant differences were found in voice timbre. For both, Polish and Canadians, polite speech t...
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; N = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran (d = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural resp...
Cultures vary in terms of emotional display rules, which include the expression of satisfaction a... more Cultures vary in terms of emotional display rules, which include the expression of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. In Poland there is a norm of negativity, deriving from a culture of complaining (Wojciszke & Baryła, 2005), whereas in Canada, there is a tendency to express happiness (Safdar, Friedlmeier, Matsumoto, Yoo, Kwantes, Kakai, & Shigemasu, E., 2009). In the present research project, norms and values regarding smiling in public situations, norms regarding the affirmation of life and complaining, as well as individual measures of optimism (LOT-R) and well-being (SWLS) were measured among Poles and Canadians. The results showed that the cultural display rules endorsed by Canadian students affirmed smiling and positivity in social life more than those for Polish students. Contrary to expectations, optimism and the level of satisfaction with their own lives were significantly higher among Poles than Canadians. This may indicate a compensatory mechanism between normative display...
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency,... more Current research on awe is limited to Western cultures. Thus, whether the measurement, frequency, and consequences of awe will replicate across non-Western cultures remains unanswered. To address this gap, we validated the dispositional awe scale (Shiota, Keltner, & John, 2006) in 4 countries (United States, Iran, Malaysia, and Poland; N = 1,173) with extensive variations in cultural values (i.e., power distance) and personality profiles (i.e., extraversion and openness). Multigroup factor analyses demonstrated that, across all cultures, a 3-factor model that treats awe, amusement, and pride as 3 unique emotions is superior to a single-factor model that clusters all 3 emotions together. Structurally, the scales of awe, amusement and pride were invariant across all countries. Furthermore, we found significant country-level differences in dispositional awe, with the largest discrepancy between the United States and Iran (d = 0.79); these differences are not likely due to cultural response biases. Results are discussed in terms of possible explanations for country-level differences and suggestions for future research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)