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The HUMAINE Database is grounded in HUMAINE’s core emphasis on considering emotion in a broad sense – ‘pervasive emotion’ – and engaging with the way it colours action and interaction. The aim of the database is to provide a resource to which the community can go to see and hear the forms that emotion takes in everyday action and interaction, and to look at the tools that might be relevant to describing it. Earlier chapters in this handbook describe the techniques and models underpinning the collection and labelling of such data. This chapter focuses on conveying the range of forms that emotion takes in the database, the ways that they can be labelled and the issues that the data raises. The HUMAINE Database provides naturalistic clips which record that kind of material, in multiple modalities, and labelling techniques that are suited to describing it. It was clear when the HUMAINE project began that work on databases should form part of it. However there were very different directions that the work might have taken. They were encapsulated early on in the contrast between ‘supportive’ and ‘provocative’ approaches, introduced in an earlier chapter in this handbook. The supportive option was to assemble a body of data whose size and structure allowed it to be used directly to build systems for recognition and/or synthesis. The provocative option was to assemble a body of data that encapsulated the challenges that the field faces.
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1 Appendix 1: User Agreement – HUMAINE Database
This user agreement applies to the database HUMAINE database provided on the enclosed CDs. It has been released by QUB (Queens University Belfast) under specific conditions for sole scientific, non-commercial use.
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No legal claims of any kind can be derived from accepting and using the data set.
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QUB is not liable for any damage resulting from receiving, installing or using the data set or other files provided by QUB in this context.
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Expressed written consent must be sought from QUB before the data set or any other files provided by QUB containing information derived from it (e.g. labelling files) are passed on by the licensee to any third party.
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If a partner/user concentrates on labelling, s/he agrees to share with all the other HUMAINE partners additional analyses, especially additional annotations. In the first instance, the analyses/annotations should be returned to the HUMAINE team at QUB.
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Any models derived using data from the data set may be used only for scientific, non-commercial applications.
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The licensee will let QUB know of any results without undue delay. Joint publications (between the licensee and QUB) should be aimed at.
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Douglas-Cowie, E. et al. (2011). The HUMAINE Database. In: Cowie, R., Pelachaud, C., Petta, P. (eds) Emotion-Oriented Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15184-2_14
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