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One of the fundamental aspects that characterizes human beings is emotion, which has bidirectional interaction with its surrounding environment. Research on emotions have crossed the domain of psychology and has witnessed increasing cross-disciplinary approaches, where the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), physiology, software engineering, behavioral science, online social networks, and others get intertwined. Motivated by its importance, in this chapter, we look at some of the popular models—both conceptual and computational—of human emotions proposed in the field of psychology. Subsequently, we discuss about different techniques of emotion detection, such as using smartphones and online social networks, and how human beings emotionally react to different scenarios. We conclude this chapter, with a study on an aspect of human–network interplay in MOONs, by considering the effects of human emotions on the network performance.
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We keep our discussion at a high level so that the reader does not require a prerequisite in biological sciences or similar subjects. In particular, we do not reflect upon the neurological and related theories of emotion.
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See [181], Chap. 4, or [182] for detailed discussions.
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For example, cardiac activity, respiration, body temperature, skin conductance, and electrical activities of the brain and muscles [210].
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Interested readers may also look at [209] where Koelstra et al. discuss in details about collection of physiological signals and their analysis. The concerned database is also publicly available.
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A Likert scale is a bipolar rating system commonly used in questionnaires. Typically, there are five or seven rating points. The middle point represents a neutral option. Whereas, those to the left and right indicate points with varying degrees of negative and positive biases.
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We shall revisit this again in Sect. 5.5.3.
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Additionally, certain guarantees on homogeneity may also be required, as we shall see in a later chapter.
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Misra, S., Saha, B.K., Pal, S. (2016). Aspects of Human Emotions and Networks. In: Opportunistic Mobile Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29031-7_5
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