Life-Affirming Biosensing in Public

Sharing Frissons among Online Video Viewers: Exploring the Design of Affective Communication for Aesthetic Chills

“…It has an ample design space ranging from line plots that focus on accuracy and intuitiveness to abstract patterns that better meet aesthetical needs [40,58,71]. Previous works also explore the use of haptic (e.g., vibration) or auditory modalities to simulate the authentic physical traits of certain biosignals [33,50]. The ease of sensing and richness of representation empowers many applications of biosignals in interpersonal affective communication.…”

“…Then, we established a digital moodboard of existing biosignal representations presented in these papers to view the common design choices. In general, among the design examples we extracted, biosignal information was provided to users in three main modalities: visual (e.g., [18,30,38,39,42,69]), haptic (e.g., [4,36,63,80]), and auditory (e.g., [21,33]). Audio feedback was not considered in our context because it may cause potential distractions if provided in parallel [21] with videos, especially those that possess especially rich auditory expressions [6].…”

Physio-Stacks: Supporting Communication with Ourselves and Others via Tangible, Modular Physiological Devices

“…Another approach is the creation of ambient displays [88] that are always available and support exercises, such as Dišimo [56] and Inner Garden [69]. Some ambient artifacts take the shape or real size furniture, as Red Bench [38], or immersiveyet-minimalist rooms such as Sonic Cradle [85] and DeLight [92].…”

PhysioKit: Open-source, Low-cost Physiological Computing Toolkit for Single and Multi-user Studies

“…Cardiovascular signals from PPG and perspiratory data from EDA have been explored to capture physiological states of students in remote classrooms [25,91] and to understand engagement levels of game players [43]. PPG signals have also been exploited to communicate the emotional states of group members to one another [72], or to connect people in public spaces [42], while EDA *Corresponding author (youngjun.cho@ucl.ac.uk) 1/22 arXiv:2308.02756v1 [cs.HC] 5 Aug 2023 signals have been used to evoke empathy through shared biofeedback [22]. Respiration cues have been used to help people understand and manage their stress [62,90], or to feel connected to others through sharing breathing signals [32].…”