Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies

Schoeller, Félix; Haar, Adam; Jain, Abhinandan; Maes, Pattie

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2019.10.008

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“…This is his message of hope”. For further discussion on contents likely to elicit chills, refer to 8 , 26 , 37 , 39 , 41 – 45 .…”

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“…This suggests new opportunities for intervening on human affect through the controlled stimulation of interoceptive signals and somatosensation. The actuation of human emotion via bodily stimulation has been suggested as an ideal case for investigating interoception and designing clinical interventions 7 , 8 . Here, we investigated embodied predictive coding by modulating bodily sensations underlying aesthetic chills (i.e., goosebumps, psychogenic shivers), using a device modulating cold and shiver sensations down the spine characteristic of this peak emotion.…”

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Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

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Previous studies on aesthetic chills (i.e., psychogenic shivers) demonstrate their positive effects on stress, pleasure, and social cognition. We tested whether we could artificially enhance this emotion and its downstream effects by intervening on its somatic markers using wearable technology. We built a device generating cold and vibrotactile sensations down the spine of subjects in temporal conjunction with a chill-eliciting audiovisual stimulus, enhancing the somatosensation of cold underlying aesthetic chills. Results suggest that participants wearing the device experienced significantly more chills, and chills of greater intensity. Further, these subjects reported sharing the feelings expressed in the stimulus to a greater degree, and felt more pleasure during the experience. These preliminary results demonstrate that emotion prosthetics and somatosensory interfaces offer new possibilities of modulating human emotions from the bottom-up (body to mind). Future challenges will include testing the device on a larger sample and diversifying the type of stimuli to account for negatively valenced chills and intercultural differences. Interoceptive technologies offer a new paradigm for affective neuroscience, allowing controlled intervention on conscious feelings and their downstream effects on higher-order cognition.

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“…This is his message of hope”. For further discussion on contents likely to elicit chills, refer to 8 , 26 , 37 , 39 , 41 – 45 .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

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“…Frisson is a localized and non-invasive wearable device built to modulate the sensations which underlie the embodied emotion of aesthetic chills (i.e., goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) by simulating traversing cold and vibration sensations down the spine [73]. The device consists of three Peltier elements and vibration motors placed at different spatial locations on the back (Figure 7).…”

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Designing Interactions Beyond Conscious Control

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Horowitz

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Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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Recent research in psychology distinguishes levels of consciousness into a tripartite model-conscious, unconscious and metaconscious. HCI technologies largely focus on the conscious pathway for computer-to-human interaction, requiring explicit user attention and action. In contrast, the other two pathways provide opportunities to create new interfaces that can alter emotion, cognition and behavior without demands on attentional resources. These direct interfaces connect to cognitive processes that are in our perception but outside our conscious control. In this work, we feature two sub-categories, namely preconscious and metasomatic within the tripartite model of consciousness. Our goal is to provide a finer categorization of cognitive processes that can better help classify HCI research related to activating non-conscious cognitive pathways. We present the design of two wearable devices, MoveU and Frisson. From lessons learned during the iterative design process and the user studies, we present four design considerations that can be used to aid HCI researchers of future devices that influence the mind. With this work we aim to highlight that awareness of consciousness levels can be a valuable design element that can help to expand the range of computer-to-human interface devices we build. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; HCI theory, concepts and models.

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“…Indeed, studies points out that this interoceptive awareness plays a major role in regulating emotions due to the feedback loop existing between the bodily information and the emotion processing (Füstös et al, 2013). Biofeedback is precisely a technology that acts on interoceptive awareness by enhancing it (Ceunen et al, 2016), thus facilitating emotion regulation (Schoeller et al, 2019).…”

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Towards Mindless Stress Regulation in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A Systematic Review

2020

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Background: Stress can frequently occur in the driving context. Its cognitive effects can be deleterious and lead to uncomfortable or risky situations. While stress detection in this context is well developed, regulation using dedicated advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) is still emergent.Objectives: This systematic review focuses on stress regulation strategies that can be qualified as “subtle” or “mindless”: the technology employed to perform regulation does not interfere with an ongoing task. The review goal is 2-fold: establishing the state of the art on such technological implementation in the driving context and identifying complementary technologies relying on subtle regulation that could be applied in driving.Methods: A systematic review was conducted using search operators previously identified through a concept analysis. The patents and scientific studies selected provide an overview of actual and potential mindless technology implementations. These are then analyzed from a scientific perspective. A classification of results was performed according to the different stages of emotion regulation proposed by the Gross model.Results: A total of 47 publications were retrieved, including 21 patents and 26 studies. Six of the studies investigated mindless stress regulation in the driving context. Patents implemented strategies mostly linked to attentional deployment, while studies tended to investigate response modulation strategies.Conclusions: This review allowed us to identify several ADAS relying on mindless computing technologies to reduce stress and better understand the underlying mechanisms allowing stress reduction. Further studies are necessary to better grasp the effect of mindless technologies on driving safety. However, we have established the feasibility of their implementation as ADAS and proposed directions for future research in this field.

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Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies

Cited by 39 publications

References 78 publications

Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

Designing Interactions Beyond Conscious Control

Towards Mindless Stress Regulation in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A Systematic Review

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