Self-report measurement of the emotion expressed by a stimulus. 2DES is a computer program which is used to collect continuous ratings provided by the study participants.
Participants report their emotion by moving the mouse in a space defined by the two bipolar dimensions valence and arousal. Both dimensions are labelled by little pictograms representing a human face (smiling of frowning for valence, with eyes and mouth wide open or closed for arousal).
Particularly useful to study affective evaluation of product sounds
A high fidelity prototype must be available
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