Paper Info
Title
The Six Emotion-Face Clock as a Tool for Continuously Rating Discrete Emotional Responses to Music.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-41248-6_1
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Emotion in music,continuous response,discrete emotions,time-series analysis,film music
Music and emotion,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Emotion classification,Speech recognition,Rating scale,Facial expression,Musical form,Sketch
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7900
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emery Schubert1224.51
Sam Ferguson23810.53
Natasha Farrar330.46
David Taylor430.46
Gary E. McPherson530.46