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Physical Emotion Induction

and its use in entertainment

Ralph Kok1, Joost Broekens2

1 Media Technology Master programme, Leiden University, the Netherlands2 Telematica Institute, Eindhoven, the Netherlands


Ears: music Eyes: images, montage Mind: storyline Body?

CONCEPT

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Vibrating game controllers Moving theatre seats

Mimicking other input Targeting specific emotions

CONCEPT

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William James• “Emotion is a result of bodily changes”

Central network model(Philippot et al., 2002)

• Emotions & bodily changes• Peripheral feedback• Implicit process


EMOTION

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Facial expression• Emotion-specific

Posture• Relaxed vs. tense

Respiration• Emotion-specific

patterns

Temperature• Negative affect


MODALITIES

Pulse• Arousal

Sweaty palms• GSR

Scent• Emotional memory

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Difficult to map to specific emotions Pleasure-Activation model

(Russel, 2003)


MODEL

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MODEL

joyful

content

afraid

sad

pleasure

arousal

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Facial expression• Hard to manipulate

Posture• Influences arousal

Respiration• Unclear P-A

seperation

Temperature• Influences pleasure


EFFECT OF MODALITIES

Pulse• Influences arousal

Sweaty palms• Relates to arousal

Scent• Too personal

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Chair Three modalities:

• Posture• Pulse• Temperature

Arduino I/O board,Processing, Max MSP


IMPLEMENTATION

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IMPLEMENTATION

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“An emotionally charged multimodal experience will be subjectively

experienced as being more intense when the physical states related to

those emotions are induced than when this is not the case.”


EXPERIMENT

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20 participants 8 video fragments With / without influence Questionnaire


EXPERIMENT

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No significant effect on emotional intensity

Various issues• Subtlety• Video quality• Questionnaire

But: selected model seems applicable!


RESULTS

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RESULTS

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RESULTS

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Scale Questionnaire Separate modalities Subtlety of influence!

Physical Emotion InductionFUTURE WORK

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