iFeel_IM! Emotion Enhancing Garment for Communication in Affect Sensitive Instant Messenger

Tsetserukou, Dzmitry; Neviarouskaya, Alena; Prendinger, Helmut; Kawakami, Naoki; Ishizuka, Mitsuru; Tachi, Susumu

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02556-3_71

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“…iFeel_IM! [ 20 ] is an implemented system that can considerably enhance the emotionally immersive experience of real-time messaging, reinforcing (intensifying) own feelings and reproducing (simulating) the emotions felt by the partner during online communication through a specially designed system.…”

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Assistive Relief Tool for Early Childhood and Special Psychological Symptom Groups during the Pandemic: Clothing Design Based on the Virtual Contact Principle

Liu

Wang

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, some special populations—groups of early childhood and people with autism, among others—faced more profound challenges than the common people. The lack of real physical contact such as embracing greatly affected the effectiveness of development, psychiatric treatment, and other processes for these populations. This study is aimed at developing clothing with appropriate contact pressure based on the contact comfort principle of psychology and providing a type of pressure clothing that can relieve the wearer’s tension by simulating hugging, alleviating the lack of physical contact for early childhood education and special education groups during the pandemic. First, the elementary requirements of clothing design are attained using a questionnaire survey and test method. The analysis revealed that clothing should fulfill the four requirements of pressure comfort, fabric softness, wearing and taking off comfort, and visual beauty. Second, we realized the performance requirements in the fabric and accessories, style design, structure design, and functional design. Finally, the product experience is proposed through a fitting, and the reasonable opinions were fed back to the product design to enhance the functionality of clothing. The research shows that clothing can simulate hugging and can ease the loneliness of the wearer. This study can be used as a good tool to assist during the pandemic for early childhood education and special psychological symptom groups, as well as a broader group of people living alone at home, to play an adjunctive treatment and loneliness relief functions.

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Assistive Relief Tool for Early Childhood and Special Psychological Symptom Groups during the Pandemic: Clothing Design Based on the Virtual Contact Principle

Liu

Wang

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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“…Also, haptic telecommunication can increase the quality of a shared experience and enhance the intimacy felt towards the other person ( Takahashi et al, 2011 ) by intensifying the emotional displays from other (e.g., visual, auditory) modalities ( Knapp & Hall, 2010 ) and by conveying specific emotions ( Hertenstein et al, 2006 ). Recent technologies like HugMe ( Cha et al, 2009 ), iFeel_ IM ( Tsetserukou et al, 2009 ) and the Frebble ( Fig. 1 ; see also Toet et al, 2013 and ) therefore focus on the enhancement of social interactivity by enabling online communication programs (like MSN or Skype) to convey affective and intimate haptic messages.…”

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Effects of mediated social touch on affective experiences and trust

Erk¹,

Toet

Erp

2015

PeerJ

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This study investigated whether communication via mediated hand pressure during a remotely shared experience (watching an amusing video) can (1) enhance recovery from sadness, (2) enhance the affective quality of the experience, and (3) increase trust towards the communication partner. Thereto participants first watched a sad movie clip to elicit sadness, followed by a funny one to stimulate recovery from sadness. While watching the funny clip they signaled a hypothetical fellow participant every time they felt amused. In the experimental condition the participants responded by pressing a hand-held two-way mediated touch device (a Frebble), which also provided haptic feedback via simulated hand squeezes. In the control condition they responded by pressing a button and they received abstract visual feedback. Objective (heart rate, galvanic skin conductance, number and duration of joystick or Frebble presses) and subjective (questionnaires) data were collected to assess the emotional reactions of the participants. The subjective measurements confirmed that the sad movie successfully induced sadness while the funny movie indeed evoked more positive feelings. Although their ranking agreed with the subjective measurements, the physiological measurements confirmed this conclusion only for the funny movie. The results show that recovery from movie induced sadness, the affective experience of the amusing movie, and trust towards the communication partner did not differ between both experimental conditions. Hence, feedback via mediated hand touching did not enhance either of these factors compared to visual feedback. Further analysis of the data showed that participants scoring low on Extraversion (i.e., persons that are more introvert) or low on Touch Receptivity (i.e., persons who do not like to be touched by others) felt better understood by their communication partner when receiving mediated touch feedback instead of visual feedback, while the opposite was found for participants scoring high on these factors. The implications of these results for further research are discussed, and some suggestions for follow-up experiments are presented.

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“…In response, previous works have attempted to automatically visualize emotions on text-based interfaces by visualizing the emotion dynamics in a document (Liu et al, 2003), providing haptic feedback via wearable equipment (Tsetserukou et al, 2009), or changing font sizes according to recognized emotions (Yeo, 2008). However, these explorations were primarily developed based on rule-based emotion detectors, which were shown to perform significantly worse than machine-learning algorithms (Wu et al, 2006).…”

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Sensing Emotions in Text Messages: An Application and Deployment Study of EmotionPush

Wang,

Li,

et al. 2016

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Instant messaging and push notifications play important roles in modern digital life. To enable robust sense-making and rich context awareness in computer mediated communications, we introduce EmotionPush, a system that automatically conveys the emotion of received text with a colored push notification on mobile devices. EmotionPush is powered by state-of-the-art emotion classifiers and is deployed for Facebook Messenger clients on Android. The study showed that the system is able to help users prioritize interactions.

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iFeel_IM! Emotion Enhancing Garment for Communication in Affect Sensitive Instant Messenger

Cited by 13 publications

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Assistive Relief Tool for Early Childhood and Special Psychological Symptom Groups during the Pandemic: Clothing Design Based on the Virtual Contact Principle

Assistive Relief Tool for Early Childhood and Special Psychological Symptom Groups during the Pandemic: Clothing Design Based on the Virtual Contact Principle

Effects of mediated social touch on affective experiences and trust

Sensing Emotions in Text Messages: An Application and Deployment Study of EmotionPush

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