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Recognition of the Emotional State of Children by Video and Audio Modalities by Indian and Russian Experts

2023; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-48309-7_38

1611-3349

Elena Lyakso, Оlga Frolova, Aleksandr Nikolaev, E. A. Kleshnev, Platon Grave, Abylay Ilyas, Olesia Makhnytkina, Ruban Nersisson, A. Mary Mekala, M Varalakshmi,

Emotion and Mood Recognition

The paper presents the results of perceptual experiment by Indian and Russian experts for recognition of the emotional states of Russian children by video and audio modalities. The participants of the study were 64 Russian children (32 – boys & 32 – girls) aged 5–16 years and 26 adults. Video and audio recordings of child’s emotion expression were made in the laboratory condition in a testing of the Child Emotional Development Method (CEDM), in tasks to depict “joy – neutral (calm state) – sadness – anger” in facial expressions and in voice, pronouncing words and phrases that reflect different emotional states. The design of the dataset is presented, the research procedure is described, video and audio fragments correctly recognized by Russian and Indian experts are analyzed. It was shown that Indian and Russian experts are able to recognize the basic emotions “joy – sadness – anger” and neutral state by facial expression, voice, and speech of Russian children. Experts better recognize joy and sadness from video, anger and sadness from audio. Both Indian & Russian experts recognize emotional states of girls by video and audio better vs. emotional states of boys. Universal and specific feature of both the cultures for recognizing the children’s emotions are revealed. The paper described limitation and depicted the future research.