Prof. Kristina Hook, IT-University in Kista, Sweden

Lecture
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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
                      Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
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 Prof. Kristina Hook, Petra Fagerberg, Anna Stahl (PhD-students),
 IT-University in Kista, Sweden


    A USER-CENTRED PERSPECTIVE ON THE DESIGN OF AFFECTIVE
           INTERACTION INVOLVING BOTH BODY AND MIND

 This seminar will present recent research results from the
 INVOLVE-group at DSV, in particular concerning a mobile 
 service named eMoto. In eMoto, users can express their 
 emotions through affective gestures that in turn render color, 
 shapes, and animations in the background of the SMS (MMS) 
 message they are writing. The gestures are picked up by sensors 
 that we have built into the pen that comes with the P800/P900 
 mobile phone from SonyEricsson.

 eMoto is built to explore how we can design for an affective 
 loop. The aim of the affective loop is to couple the affective 
 channels of users closely to those of interactive applications, 
 so that the user's emotions are influenced by those expressed 
 by or through the application, and vice versa. Through designing 
 for physical expressions of the end-user (eg., body posture, gestures, 
 tangible input through toys, speech) that makes sense with regards 
 to the design of the overall interaction or narrative or the system
 they  interact with, we try to make users involved both physically 
 and cognitively.

 Our research is firmly rooted in a user-centred perspective. In 
 particular we are interested in: embodiment as a means to address 
 physical and mental concepts in the interaction, natural but designed 
 expressions as a means to communicate affect instead of aiming for 
 complete naturalness, and ambiguity of the designed expressions to 
 allow for open-ended interpretation by the end-users instead of  
 simplistic, one-emotion one-expression pairs.

 Our aim is to leave the control over the interaction with the user,  
 rather than inferring human emotion, but still maintain the mystery 
 and open interpretation of emotional interactions and expressions.


  Zeit:   Montag, 26. April 2004, 18:30 Uhr pktl.

  Ort:    Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
          fuer Artificial Intelligence
          FREYUNG 6/6, 1010 Wien.


  OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
  FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE


  o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl