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It uses the DECtalk voice synthesizer, and changes pitch, timing, articulation, etc. to express various emotions. Intonation is used to vary between question and statement-like utterances. Lip synchronization was important for realism, and the developers used a strategy from animation: [6] "simplicity is the secret to successful lip animation ...
In 2012, Facebook, Inc. conducted one-week experiment where they tried manipulating people their emotions negatively. [1] ... Reaction by Facebook
Facebook used a combination platform based on HBase to store data across distributed machines. Using a tailing architecture, events are stored in log files, and the logs are tailed. The system rolls these events up and writes them to storage. The user interface then pulls the data out and displays it to users.
Facebook introduces the ability to tag friends in photos. [316] 2006: March 28: Acquisition talks: A potential acquisition of Facebook is reportedly under negotiations, for $750 million first, then later $2 billion. [259] 2006: April: Userbase: Facebook expands its membership requirements to include corporate employees. [317] 2006: August 22 ...
The power of emotions to influence judgment, including political attitudes, has been recognized since classical antiquity. Aristotle, in his treatise Rhetoric, described emotional arousal as critical to persuasion, "The orator persuades by means of his hearers, when they are roused to emotion by his speech; for the judgments we deliver are not the same when we are influenced by joy or sorrow ...
The whole battery is composed from two subtests : (1) a reduced and modified version of the Faux-Pas test, [3] assessing Theory of Mind and (2) a facial emotions recognition test. [4] Both tests are among the most sensitive and specific tests for the diagnosis of the frontotemporal dementia and accurately discriminate frontotemporal dementia ...
It is sometimes used as a loose synonym for the United Kingdom as a whole. [31] The word England is occasionally used incorrectly to refer to the United Kingdom as a whole, a mistake principally made by people from outside the UK. [32] The term "Britain" is used as a synonym for Great Britain, [33] [34] but also sometimes for the United Kingdom.
A widely used framework for viewing emotions in a functional context is that described by Oatley and Jenkins [24] who see emotions as having three stages: (i) appraisal in which there is a conscious or unconscious evaluation of an event as relevant to a particular goal. An emotion is positive when that goal is advanced and negative when it is ...