Emotion actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation

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Authors

  • Mariam Hassib
  • Max Pfeiffer
  • Stefan Schneegass
  • Michael Rohs
  • Florian Alt

External Research Organisations

  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
  • University of Stuttgart
  • University of Münster
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI '17
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages6133-6146
Number of pages14
ISBN (electronic)9781450346559
Publication statusPublished - 2 May 2017
Event2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States
Duration: 6 May 201711 May 2017

Abstract

The human body reveals emotional and bodily states through measurable signals, such as body language and electroen-cephalography. However, such manifestations are difficult to communicate to others remotely. We propose EmotionActua-tor, a proof-of-concept system to investigate the transmission of emotional states in which the recipient performs emotional gestures to understand and interpret the state of the sender. We call this kind of communication embodied emotional feedback, and present a prototype implementation. To realize our concept we chose four emotional states: amused, sad, angry, and neutral. We designed EmotionActuator through a series of studies to assess emotional classification via EEG, and create an EMS gesture set by comparing composed gestures from the literature to sign-language gestures. Through a final study with the end-to-end prototype interviews revealed that participants like implicit sharing of emotions and find the embodied output to be immersive, but want to have control over shared emotions and with whom. This work contributes a proof of concept system and set of design recommendations for designing embodied emotional feedback systems.

Keywords

    Affect display, Affective computing, EEG, Emotion, Emotion sharing, EMS

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Emotion actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. / Hassib, Mariam; Pfeiffer, Max; Schneegass, Stefan et al.
CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 6133-6146.

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Hassib, M, Pfeiffer, M, Schneegass, S, Rohs, M & Alt, F 2017, Emotion actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. in CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 6133-6146, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, Denver, United States, 6 May 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025953
Hassib, M., Pfeiffer, M., Schneegass, S., Rohs, M., & Alt, F. (2017). Emotion actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 6133-6146). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025953
Hassib M, Pfeiffer M, Schneegass S, Rohs M, Alt F. Emotion actuator: Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 6133-6146 doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025953
Hassib, Mariam ; Pfeiffer, Max ; Schneegass, Stefan et al. / Emotion actuator : Embodied Emotional Feedback Through Electroencephalography and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. pp. 6133-6146
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