WearingEmotionsPhysical representation and visualization of humanemotions using wearable technologies

Salvatore Iaconesi [ salvatore.iaconesi@artisopensource.net ]FakePress [ http://www.fakepress.it ]

introductions

Salvatore Iaconesi

next step publishingno books

multi-author, open-ended, ubiquitous narrativespublishing for bodies, objects, architectures, places

A question:

How do you publishEMOTIONS

?

EMOTIONS

EMOTIONS

psychological

physiological

cultural

physiologicalarousal

behaviour

consciousexperience

EMOTIONSS

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lato

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tote

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Spi

noza

Hum

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ange

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dA

rnol

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Laza

rus

Plu

tchi

kZ

ajon

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kman

Pan

ksep

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da...

EMOTION THEORIES

James-Lange

somatic

neurobiological

prefrontal cortex

cognitive

homeostatic

perceptual

affective

Cannon-Bard

two-factor

component-process

EMOTION DISCIPLINES

psychology

humanistic

linguistics

communication sciences

law

economics

anthropology

sociology

neuroscience

education

political sciencesdesign

philosophy

computer sciencerobotics

artificial intelligence systems theory

VISUALIZINGEMOTIONS

We feel fne (Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar)

JJ, empathic network visualization (Golan Levin)

Synesketch (Uroš Krčadinac)

Emotionally vague (Orlagh O'Brien)

Twistory (Amy Hoy, Thomas Fuchs)

Pulse (Markus Kison)

Biomapping (Christian Nold)

Realtime emotions (FakePress)

Hugshirt (Cutecircuit)

Emotion board (IFE Wearable computing, Zurich)

Wearable absence (Barbara Layne, Janis Jefferies)

GER: Galvanic Extimacy Responder (kristin neidlinger)

Smart Second Skin (Jenny Tillotson)

The Emotional Wardrobe (Lisa Stead)

Philips SKIN

... and many others

the BodyvisualizesEMOTIONS

phisically

blushing

phisically

sweating

phisically

gestures

phisically

movements

and culturally

dance

and culturally

tattoos

publishing/visualizing

EMOTIONS

on/withthe BODY

for

ART/AESTHETICSEXPRESSION

COMMUNICATIONORGANIZATION

SCIENCECULTURE

OBJECTIVE:

research CONTEXTcreate GRAMMARS

VISUALIZE/EXPERIENCE

SENSOR COMPARATOR ACTUATOR

1

2

N

N remote

ISSUES

How do you recognize emotions?

ISSUES

How do you compare emotions?

ISSUES

How do you represent/share/aggregate/disseminateemotions?

?

TALKERS PERFORMANCE

TALKERS PERFORMANCE

TALKERS PERFORMANCE

WEB+SOCIAL NETS

LIVEAUDIENCE

EXPERTSYSTEM

DANCER'SBODY

MULTIMEDIAENVIRONMENT

TALKERS PERFORMANCE

● people interact with touch interfaces, social networks and mobile phones● interfaces are designed to express emotions through music, graphics...● data is gathered and fed to expert system, to aggregate information● aggregated emotions are used in groups to be visualized:

● dancer's body interprets information as body electric shocks● video projection 1 generates representation using Plutchick● video projection 2 generates interferences on vide input● Speakers on body of dancer generate words according to monitored emotional state

ONEAVATAR

ONEAVATAR

ONEAVATAR

Physical Body connects to the Digital Body of the Avatar

Interactions transfer emotions across digital/analog boundaries

ENACTS TRANSFORMS SENSES

SENSES TRANSFORMS ENACTS

PHYSICALBODY

DIGITALBODY

ONEAVATAR

ONEAVATAR

ONEAVATAR

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