Emotional Induction Through Films: A Model for the Regulation of Emotions
This paper introduces a software program to recognise discrete emotions on an ageing adult from his/her physiological and psychological responses. This research considers the capacity from an audiovisual method to evoke different emotions and uses it to interpret and modulate basic emotion states. Different body sensors, in the case of physiological response, and a set of questionnaires, in the case of psychological responses, are selected to measure the power in causing fear, anger, disgust, sadness, amusement, affection and the neutral state, through a set of films used as an emotional induction method. The initial results suggest that it is possible to extract discrete values about positive and negative emotional states with films and to use these responses as keys to get emotion regulation.