physical emotion induction and its use in entertainment

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

Physical Emotion Induction

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

CONCEPT

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Physical Emotion Induction

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

Physical Emotion Induction

EMOTION

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Facial expression• Emotion-specific

Posture• Relaxed vs. tense

Respiration• Emotion-specific

patterns

Temperature• Negative affect

Physical Emotion Induction

MODALITIES

Pulse• Arousal

Sweaty palms• GSR

Scent• Emotional memory

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Difficult to map to specific emotions Pleasure-Activation model

(Russel, 2003)

Physical Emotion Induction

MODEL

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Physical Emotion Induction

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

Physical Emotion Induction

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

Physical Emotion Induction

IMPLEMENTATION

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Physical Emotion Induction

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.”

Physical Emotion Induction

EXPERIMENT

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20 participants 8 video fragments With / without influence Questionnaire

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EXPERIMENT

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No significant effect on emotional intensity

Various issues• Subtlety• Video quality• Questionnaire

But: selected model seems applicable!

Physical Emotion Induction

RESULTS

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Physical Emotion Induction

RESULTS

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Physical Emotion Induction

RESULTS

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Scale Questionnaire Separate modalities Subtlety of influence!

Physical Emotion InductionFUTURE WORK

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