Mirror Ritual: human-machine co-construction of emotion

Nina Rajcic; Jon McCormack

doi:10.1145/3374920.3375293

Mirror Ritual: human-machine co-construction of emotion

Nina Rajcic, Jon McCormack

Department of Human Centred Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Mirror Ritual is an interactive installation that challenges the existing paradigms in our understanding of human emotion and machine perception. In contrast to prescriptive interfaces, the work's real-Time affective interface engages the audience in the iterative conceptualisation of their emotional state through the use of affectively-charged machine generated poetry. The audience are encouraged to make sense of the mirror's poetry by framing it with respect to their recent life experiences, effectively ?putting into words' their felt emotion. This process of affect labelling and contextualisation works to not only regulate emotion, but helps to construct the rich personal narratives that constitute human identity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Editors	Orit Shaer, Jelle van Dijk, Andrew Kun
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	697-702
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450361071
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3375293
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2020 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 9 Feb 2020 → 12 Feb 2020 Conference number: 14th https://tei.acm.org/2020/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3374920 (Proceedings)

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Conference	Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2020
Abbreviated title	TEI 2020
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	9/02/20 → 12/02/20
Internet address	https://tei.acm.org/2020/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3374920 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Affective computing
Emotion
Gaze detection
Neural networks
Poetics
Text generation

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Rajcic, N & McCormack, J 2020, Mirror Ritual: human-machine co-construction of emotion. in O Shaer, J van Dijk & A Kun (eds), Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 697-702, Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2020, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 9/02/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3375293

Mirror Ritual: human-machine co-construction of emotion. / Rajcic, Nina; McCormack, Jon.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ed. / Orit Shaer; Jelle van Dijk; Andrew Kun. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 697-702.

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