Troi: Towards understanding users perspectives to mobile automatic emotion recognition system in their natural setting

Vipula Dissanayake, Vanessa Tang, Don Samitha Elvitigala, Elliott Wen, Michelle Wu, Suranga Nanayakkara

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Abstract

Emotional Self-Awareness (ESA) plays a vital role in physical and mental well-being. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence technologies have shown promising emotion recognition results, opening new opportunities to build systems to support ESA. However, little research has been done to understand users’ perspectives on artificial-intelligence-based emotion recognition systems. We introduce Troi, an automatic emotion recognition mobile app using wearable signals. With Troi, we ran a multi-day user study with 12 users to understand user preference parameters, such as perceived accuracy, confidence, preferred emotion representations, effect of self-awareness of emotions, and real-time use cases. Further, we extend our study to evaluate the machine learning model in-the-wild to understand behaviours in-the-wild. We found that users perceived accuracy of the emotion recognition model is higher than the actual model prediction accuracy; there was no strong preference for one specific emotion representation, and users’ self-awareness of emotions improved over time.

Original languageEnglish
Article number203
Number of pages22
JournalProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume6
Issue numberMHCI
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Sept 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Automatic Emotion Recognition
  • In-the-wild Study
  • Mobile Application
  • Physiological Signals

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