Emotions: The Voice of the Unconscious

Rauterberg, Matthias

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0_19

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“…It should be noted that questions about emotions are fundamental in psychology and play an important role in understanding mind and behavior [10]. Recently, an interesting idea about this role was presented: emotion is a medium of communication between the unconscious and the conscious in the human mind [11]. According to this idea, emotion is seen as the conscious perception of the complex mapping processes from the unconscious space into the low-dimensional space of the conscious.…”

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Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

Ivonin

Chang

Chen

et al. 2012

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Lifelogging tools aim to precisely capture daily experiences of people from the first-person perspective. Although there have been numerous lifelogging tools developed for users to record the external environment around them, the internal part of experience characterized by emotions seems to be neglected in the lifelogging field. However, the internal experiences of people are important and, therefore, lifelogging tools should be able to capture not only the environmental data, but also emotional experiences, thereby providing a more complete archive of past events. Moreover, there are implicit emotions that cannot be consciously experienced, but still influence human behaviors and memories. It has been proven that conscious emotions can be recognized from physiological signals of the human body. This fact may be used to enhance life-logs with information about unconscious emotions, which otherwise would remain hidden. On the other hand, it is not clear if unconscious emotions can be recognized from physiological signals and differentiated from conscious emotions. Therefore, an experiment was designed to elicit emotions (both conscious and unconscious) with visual and auditory stimuli and to record cardiovascular responses of 34 participants. The experimental results showed that heart rate responses to the presentation of the stimuli are unique for every category of the emotional stimuli and allow differentiation between various emotional experiences of the participants.

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Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

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Chen

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“…In investigating conscious and subconscious aspects of user experience, it is essential to collect information about the mental content of conscious experience (Rauterberg, 2010). This can be accomplished using various methods, such as verbal protocol analysis , retrospective interviews, observations, or questionnaires.…”

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Jokinen

Silvennoinen

Perälä

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Esitetään Jyväskylän yliopiston informaatioteknologian tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi yliopiston Agora-rakennuksen auditoriossa 2 kesäkuun 6. päivänä 2015 kello 12.Academic dissertation to be publicly discussed, by permission of the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Jyväskylä, in building Agora, auditorium 2, on June 6, 2015 at 12 o'clock noon. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ JYVÄSKYLÄ 2015User Researchers of human-technology interaction have started to emphasise the importance of technology users' experiences: experience is an important aspect of daily life, and thus it should be taken into account in human-technology interaction research and in design of new technologies. However, scientific study of conscious experience is difficult, and the field of user experience research is afflicted by incompatible definitions, assumptions, and guidelines for investigating users' experiences and designing for them. This problem is emphasised by the lack of foundational framework, which would allow for comparing the metascientific and methodological assumptions behind different accounts of user experience. Here, such an account is presented in the form of foundational analysis of human-technology interaction. The resulting methodological framework is used to review theories of user experience with a conclusion that while the topics investigated under the umbrella of user experience seem to be the correct ones, their operationalisation lacks proper psychological basis. As a result of the foundational analysis of user experience, one of the core concepts related to conscious experience, emotion, is introduced, and different psychological accounts for it are reviewed using the methodological framework. Appraisal theory of emotion is shown to provide methodologically the best option for studying emotional user experience. A review of empirical studies, included as the articles of this thesis, supports this conclusion. Emotional user experience is discussed in terms of (1) a competence-frustration model, (2) individual coping differences in human-technology interaction, (3) mental contents of emotional experience, and (4) the non-conscious cognitive processes associated with the appraisal process. These elaborations can be used to investigate what users experience emotionally when they interact with technology, and explain these experiences. Such investigations should provide valid knowledge structures for designers, who aim to create technologies with certain experience goals.Keywords: user experience, emotion, appraisal, mental content Author's address ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAs I started my studies on emotion in human-technology interaction over four years ago, I wasn't that familiar with the topic, nor with the field of humantechnology interaction in general. What I've learned during my doctoral studies, and what I hopefully can teach to others, has not been achieved by myself alone, but with the help of multiple people: colleagues in academia, industrial partners, family members, study partic...

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“…People outside of psychological science often equate the unconscious with processing of stimuli, which are too weak or short to enter the conscious awareness and, therefore, are referred to as subliminal. In fact, the unconscious information processing is not necessarily associated with presentations of subliminal stimuli and runs continuously as a parallel background process in the human mind (Rauterberg 2010).…”

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Beyond cognition and affect: sensing the unconscious

Ivonin

Chang

Díaz

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Behaviour & Information Technology

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In the past decade, research on human-computer interaction has embraced psychophysiological user interfaces that enhance awareness of computers about conscious cognitive and affective states of users and increase their adaptive capabilities. Still, human experience is not limited to the levels of cognition and affect but extends further into the realm of universal instincts and innate behaviors that form the collective unconscious. Patterns of instinctual traits shape archetypes that represent images of the unconscious. This study investigated Further analysis suggested that classification performance could be improved up to 70.3 percent in the case of 7 archetypes by using within-subject models.

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Emotions: The Voice of the Unconscious

Cited by 18 publications

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Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

Unconscious emotions: quantifying and logging something we are not aware of

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Beyond cognition and affect: sensing the unconscious

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