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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at
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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