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Towards enhancing emotional responses to media using auto-calibrating Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS)

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Abstract

We evaluate the use of Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) as a method of amplifying emotional responses to multimedia content. .is paper presents an auto-calibration method to stimulate two facial expressions using EMS. We focus on two expressions: frown and smile. We a.empted control of facial muscles with facial feedback for automatically calibrating these facial expressions: our computer vision system detects the facial expression and autocalibrates the EMS parameters (intensity and duration) based on the user's current facial expression. We present results from a pilot study with four participants evaluating the auto-calibration system and collecting initial feedback on the use of EMS to augment, for example, media experiences: while watching movies we can enhance the emotional response of the users during happy and sad scenes by stimulating corresponding face muscles.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018
EditorsGeehyuk Lee
Place of PublicationNew York BNY USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450354158
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventAugmented Human International Conference 2018 - Seoul, Korea, South
Duration: 7 Feb 20189 Feb 2018
Conference number: 9th
http://www.sigah.org/AH2018/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3174910 (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceAugmented Human International Conference 2018
Abbreviated titleAH 2018
Country/TerritoryKorea, South
CitySeoul
Period7/02/189/02/18
Internet address

Keywords

  • Affective computing
  • Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS)
  • Emotion
  • Facial feedback

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