This paper presents the AWESOME research project: Awareness While Experiencing and Surfing On Movies through Emotions, which focused on the role of emotions in movies, aiming to enhance viewers' emotional awareness while searching, accessing and watching movies. The project addressed challenges such as capturing viewers' emotional responses, and analyzing movie content based on subtitles, audio, and video. Thro...
This study examined people's moral judgments and trait perceptions toward a healthcare agent's response to a patient who refuses medication. A sample of 524 participants was randomly assigned to one of eight vignettes in which the type of healthcare agent (human vs. robot), the use of a health message framing (emphasizing health-losses for not taking vs. health-gains in taking the medication), and the ethical d...
Movies offer viewers a broad range of emotional experiences, providing entertainment, and meaning. Following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we reviewed the literature on digital systems designed to help users search and browse movie libraries and offer recommendations based on emotional content. Our search yielded 83 eligible documents (published between 2000 and 2021). We identified 22 case studies, 34 empirical s...
Browsing online ratings and viewers’ comments is an integral part of the experience of choosing and watching a movie. Current theories have broadened the concept of entertainment beyond amusement (hedonic motives) to include experiences of meaning, value, and self-development (eudaimonic motives). With a between-subjects design, we examined the role of the reviewer’s rating (medium rating vs high rating), comme...
The aim of this review was to examine the pros and cons of humanizing social robots following a psychological perspective. As such, we had six goals. First, we defined what social robots are. Second, we clarified the meaning of humanizing social robots. Third, we presented the theoretical backgrounds for promoting humanization. Fourth, we conducted a review of empirical results of the positive effects and the n...