Sensing Emotions [electronic resource] : The impact of context on experience measurements /
Probing Experience(2nd :2008 :Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Westerink, Joyce.editor.
Krans, Martijn.editor.
Ouwerkerk, Martin.editor.
The authors of this book analyze the influence of specific everyday life situations and contexts on the emotional state of people and the ways in which this can impact measurements of user experience. The book anticipates a future in which products and machines know how we feel and adapt to the feelings they sense (music systems that effectively enhance our current mood with a personalized choice of music, computer dialogues that avoid upcoming frustration, and photo cameras that take pictures whenever we're excited). In all these situations, knowledge of the emotional state of the user is prime information. A previous book published in the Philips Research Book Series, "Probing Experience", illustrated ways to evaluate the user experience through behavioural and physiological parameters. The present book focuses on the influence of context in these measurements. The everyday-life contexts of future products and machines will be always specific, especially in comparison to the standard laboratory situation. Context can impact the experience measurements and influence the occurrence and characteristics of certain signals. On the other hand, independent knowledge of the context could be very valuable for the interpretation of experience measurements. This book provides an overview of the present knowledge on the impact of context, and advocates the need for a joint understanding of its role in the measurement of experience. The authors comprise many experienced researchers on this topic with a wide variety of backgrounds, including business and academia, covering a broad range of context situations.
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Introduction: Sensing Emotions in Context; Contents; Contributors; 1 Physiological Computing: Interfacing with the Human Nervous System; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Categories of Physiological Computing; 1.3 Fundamental Issues; 1.4 Ethics and Privacy; 1.5 Summary; References; 2 Unobtrusive Emotions Sensing in Daily Life; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 State-of-the-Art; 2.3 Philips Emotion Sensing Platform; 2.4 Application Examples; References; 3 Physical Activity Recognition Using a Wearable Accelerometer; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Placement and Number of Accelerometers; 3.3 Optimal Sampling Frequency
3.4 Segmentation of the Acceleration Signal3.5 Classification Algorithms and Data Recording; References; 4 The Use of Psychophysiological Measures During Complex Flight Manoeuvres -- An Expert Pilot Study; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Methods; 4.3 Results; 4.4 Discussion; References; 5 The Effects of Colored Light on Valence and Arousal; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Material and Method; 5.3 Results; 5.4 Discussion; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 Audiovisual Expression of Emotions in Communication; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Experiment I; 6.3 Experiment II; 6.4 Experiment III; 6.5 Experiment IV
6.6 General Conclusion and DiscussionReferences; 7 Accessing the Parallel Universe of Connotative Meaning; 7.1 The Mother of All Technologies; 7.2 "Two Vocabularies Using the Same Set of Words"; 7.3 Past Barriers to Creation of a Connotative Dictionary; 7.4 Osgood and the Discovery of E-P-A; 7.5 E-P-A and Darwinian Natural Selection; 7.6 Connotative Intelligence; 7.7 Overview of Connotative Language Reference Products; 7.8 Connotative Products in Development; 7.9 Accessing the Parallel Universe of Connotative Meaning: What's Next?; References
8 Runners' Experience of Implicit Coaching Through Music8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Experiment 1: Ease and Naturalness of Following the Music Tempo; 8.3 Experiment 2: User Experiences with Implicit, Synchronised Coaching Compared to Absent, Explicit And/Or Fixed-Music Coaching; 8.4 Overall Discussion and Summary; References; 9 Sleep in Context; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Why Sleep Matters to People; 9.3 How the Mind and the Body Affect Sleep; 9.4 How the Environment Affects Sleep; 9.5 Techniques for Measuring Sleep in People's Homes; References
10 Telling the Story and Re-Living the Past: How Speech Analysis Can Reveal Emotions in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Patients10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); 10.3 Developing an Artificial Therapy Assistant; 10.4 Story Telling and Reliving the Past; 10.5 Emotion Detection by Means of Speech Signal Analysis; 10.6 The Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD); 10.7 Design and Procedure; 10.8 Features Extracted from the Speech Signal; 10.9 Results; 10.10 Discussion; 10.11 Reflection: Methodological Issues and Suggestions; 10.12 Conclusions
Appendix 1: Introduction on Linear Regression Models
Includes bibliographical references.
The authors of this book analyze the influence of specific everyday life situations and contexts on the emotional state of people and the ways in which this can impact measurements of user experience. The book anticipates a future in which products and machines know how we feel and adapt to the feelings they sense (music systems that effectively enhance our current mood with a personalized choice of music, computer dialogues that avoid upcoming frustration, and photo cameras that take pictures whenever we're excited). In all these situations, knowledge of the emotional state of the user is prime information. A previous book published in the Philips Research Book Series, "Probing Experience", illustrated ways to evaluate the user experience through behavioural and physiological parameters. The present book focuses on the influence of context in these measurements. The everyday-life contexts of future products and machines will be always specific, especially in comparison to the standard laboratory situation. Context can impact the experience measurements and influence the occurrence and characteristics of certain signals. On the other hand, independent knowledge of the context could be very valuable for the interpretation of experience measurements. This book provides an overview of the present knowledge on the impact of context, and advocates the need for a joint understanding of its role in the measurement of experience. The authors comprise many experienced researchers on this topic with a wide variety of backgrounds, including business and academia, covering a broad range of context situations.
Biomedical engineering.
User interfaces (Computer systems).
Artificial intelligence.
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
Human physiology.
Quality of life.
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
Artificial Intelligence.
Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
Human Physiology.
Quality of Life Research.
Philips Research Book Series