title: Preliminary Evaluation of a Web-Oriented Assessment Tool for Emotion Recognition.
abstract: Perceiving and identifying emotions on facial expressions is one of the basic abilities that compose emotional intelligence, and is crucial for normal social functions. It is well documented that facial expression conveys information about felt emotion, and that expressive behavior can activate or regulate the emotion required by a given situation. Instruments measuring emotion perception based on facial expression have been found in literature either as stand-alone scales or as part of other tests. The proposed tool expands existing instruments to combine online availability while affording assessment of emotion recognition on a continuum of intensity. It was founded on Ekman's Facial Action Units, with two Virtual Characters (male and female) portraying five basic emotions Anger, Disgust, Fear, Joy, Sadness, plus Neutral expression. The user can navigate on the custom-made pentagon and choose the emotion and intensity level (1-5) through a single click. The preliminary evaluation of the tool on thirty normal subjects provided threshold data that can later be used as benchmarks to assess emotion perception sensitivity in psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia characterized by emotional dysfunction.
authors.affiliation: Le2i Laboratory, University of Burgundy, Le Creusot, France; anastasia.pampouchidou@gmail.com, {fmeriau, fanyang}@u-bourgogne.fr.
authors.forename: Anastasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pampouchidou
authors.affiliation: Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; {elenikaz, karatzan, kmarias}@ics.forth.gr.
authors.forename: Eleni
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kazantzaki
authors.affiliation: Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; {elenikaz, karatzan, kmarias}@ics.forth.gr.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karatzanis
authors.affiliation: Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; {elenikaz, karatzan, kmarias}@ics.forth.gr.
authors.forename: Kostas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marias
authors.affiliation: Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Department of Informatics Engineering, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; tsiknaki@ics.forth.gr.
authors.forename: Manolis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsiknakis
authors.affiliation: Le2i Laboratory, University of Burgundy, Le Creusot, France; anastasia.pampouchidou@gmail.com, {fmeriau, fanyang}@u-bourgogne.fr.
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meriaudeau
authors.affiliation: Le2i Laboratory, University of Burgundy, Le Creusot, France; anastasia.pampouchidou@gmail.com, {fmeriau, fanyang}@u-bourgogne.fr.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece; akis.simos@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions / Q000145:classification*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D000076142:Virtual Reality