synesketch.emotion
Class EmotionalState

java.lang.Object
  synesketch.SynesketchState
      synesketch.emotion.EmotionalState

public class EmotionalState
extends SynesketchState

Defines emotional content of the text.

That is:

• General emotional weight
• General valence (emotion is positive or negative)
• Six specific emotional weights, defined by Ekman's categories: happiness weight, sadness weight, fear weight, anger weight, disgust weight, surprise weight. These specific emotions are defined by the class Emotion.
• Previous EmotionalState (so that whole emotional history of one conversation can be accessed from the Processing applet (PApplet)).

Weights have values between 0 and 1 (0 for no emotion, 1 for full emotion, 0.5 for the emotion of average intesity). Valence can be -1, 0, or 1 (negative, neutral, and positive emotion, respectively).

Version:

1.0

Author:

Uros Krcadinac email: uros@krcadinac.com

Constructor Summary

EmotionalState()
Empty class constructor

EmotionalState(java.lang.String text)
Class constructor which sets the text.

EmotionalState(java.lang.String text, java.util.SortedSet<Emotion> emotions, double generalWeight, int valence)
Class constuctor which sets the text, general emotional weight, emotional valence, and all of the emotional weights (in a form of a SortedSet).

Method Summary

Emotion	getAnger() Getter for the Emotion of anger.
double	getAngerWeight() Getter for the anger weight
Emotion	getDisgust() Getter for the Emotion of disgust.
double	getDisgustWeight() Getter for the disgust weight
Emotion	getFear() Getter for the Emotion of fear.
double	getFearWeight() Getter for the fear weight
java.util.List<Emotion>	getFirstStrongestEmotions(int stop) Returns several emotions (Emotion instances) with the highest weight.
double	getGeneralWeight() Getter for the general emotional weight
Emotion	getHappiness() Getter for the Emotion of happiness.
double	getHappinessWeight() Getter for the happiness weight
EmotionalState	getPrevious() Getter for the previous EmotionalState
Emotion	getSadness() Getter for the Emotion of sadness.
double	getSadnessWeight() Getter for the sadness weight
Emotion	getStrongestEmotion() Returns Emotion with the highest weight.
Emotion	getSurprise() Getter for the Emotion of surprise
double	getSurpriseWeight() Getter for the surprise weight
int	getValence() Getter for the emotional valence
void	setPrevious(EmotionalState previous) Setter for the previous EmotionalState
java.lang.String	toString() Transforms emotional data into a descriptional sentence ('toString' method)

Methods inherited from class synesketch.SynesketchState

getText

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EmotionalState

public EmotionalState()

Empty class constructor

EmotionalState

public EmotionalState(java.lang.String text)

Class constructor which sets the text.

Parameters:

text - String representing the text

EmotionalState

public EmotionalState(java.lang.String text,
                      java.util.SortedSet<Emotion> emotions,
                      double generalWeight,
                      int valence)

Class constuctor which sets the text, general emotional weight, emotional valence, and all of the emotional weights (in a form of a SortedSet).

Parameters:

text - String representing the text

emotions - SortedSet containing all of the specific Ekman emotinal weights, defined by the Emotion class

generalWeight - double representing the general emotional weight

valence - int representing the emotinal valence

Method Detail

getStrongestEmotion

public Emotion getStrongestEmotion()

Returns Emotion with the highest weight.

Returns:

Emotion with the highest weight

getFirstStrongestEmotions

public java.util.List<Emotion> getFirstStrongestEmotions(int stop)

Returns several emotions (Emotion instances) with the highest weight.

Parameters:

stop - int representing the number of emotions which is to searched for

Returns:

list of emotions (Emotion instances) with the highest weight

getHappiness

public Emotion getHappiness()

Getter for the Emotion of happiness.

Returns:

Emotion of happiness

getHappinessWeight

public double getHappinessWeight()

Getter for the happiness weight

Returns:

double representing the happiness weight

getSadness

public Emotion getSadness()

Getter for the Emotion of sadness.

Returns:

Emotion of sadness

getSadnessWeight

public double getSadnessWeight()

Getter for the sadness weight

Returns:

double representing the sadness weight

getFear

public Emotion getFear()

Getter for the Emotion of fear.

Returns:

Emotion of fear

getFearWeight

public double getFearWeight()

Getter for the fear weight

Returns:

double representing the fear weight

getAnger

public Emotion getAnger()

Getter for the Emotion of anger.

Returns:

Emotion of anger

getAngerWeight

public double getAngerWeight()

Getter for the anger weight

Returns:

double representing the anger weight

getDisgust

public Emotion getDisgust()

Getter for the Emotion of disgust.

Returns:

Emotion of disgust

getDisgustWeight

public double getDisgustWeight()

Getter for the disgust weight

Returns:

double representing the disgust weight

getSurprise

public Emotion getSurprise()

Getter for the Emotion of surprise

Returns:

Emotion of surprise

getSurpriseWeight

public double getSurpriseWeight()

Getter for the surprise weight

Returns:

double representing the surprise weight

getPrevious

public EmotionalState getPrevious()

Getter for the previous EmotionalState

Returns:

previous EmotionalState

setPrevious

public void setPrevious(EmotionalState previous)

Setter for the previous EmotionalState

Parameters:

previous - previous EmotionalState

getValence

public int getValence()

Getter for the emotional valence

Returns:

emotional valence

getGeneralWeight

public double getGeneralWeight()

Getter for the general emotional weight

Returns:

general emotional weight

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Transforms emotional data into a descriptional sentence ('toString' method)

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

String description of a emotinal data