An advanced mental state transition network and psychological experiments

Abstract

The study of human-computer interaction is now the most popular research domain overall computer science and psychology science. The most of essential issues recently focus on not only the information about the physical computing but also the affective computing. The emotion states of human being can dramatically affect their actions. It is important for a computer to understand what the people feel at the time. In this paper, we propose a novel method to predict the future emotion state of person depending on the current emotion state and affective factors by an advanced mental state transition network[1] . The psychological experiment with about 100 participants has been done to obtain the structure and the coefficients of the model. The test experiment also has been done to certificate the prediction validity of this model. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.