WELD: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Dataset of Emotional Dynamics for Ubiquitous Affective Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15221v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:59:43 GMT
• Title: WELD: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Dataset of Emotional Dynamics for Ubiquitous Affective Computing
• Authors: Xiao Sun,
• Abstract summary: We present a novel dataset comprising 733,651 facial expression records from 38 employees collected over 30.5 months in an authentic office environment.<n>Each record contains seven emotion probabilities derived from deep learning-based facial expression recognition.<n>The dataset uniquely spans the COVID-19 pandemic period, capturing emotional responses to major societal events.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated emotion recognition in real-world workplace settings remains a challenging problem in affective computing due to the scarcity of large-scale, longitudinal datasets collected in naturalistic environments. We present a novel dataset comprising 733,651 facial expression records from 38 employees collected over 30.5 months (November 2021 to May 2024) in an authentic office environment. Each record contains seven emotion probabilities (neutral, happy, sad, surprised, fear, disgusted, angry) derived from deep learning-based facial expression recognition, along with comprehensive metadata including job roles, employment outcomes, and personality traits. The dataset uniquely spans the COVID-19 pandemic period, capturing emotional responses to major societal events including the Shanghai lockdown and policy changes. We provide 32 extended emotional metrics computed using established affective science methods, including valence, arousal, volatility, predictability, inertia, and emotional contagion strength. Technical validation demonstrates high data quality through successful replication of known psychological patterns (weekend effect: +192% valence improvement, p < 0.001; diurnal rhythm validated) and perfect predictive validity for employee turnover (AUC=1.0). Baseline experiments using Random Forest and LSTM models achieve 91.2% accuracy for emotion classification and R2 = 0.84 for valence prediction. This is the largest and longest longitudinal workplace emotion dataset publicly available, enabling research in emotion recognition, affective dynamics modeling, emotional contagion, turnover prediction, and emotion-aware system design.

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