Methodology of Affective Intervention Design for Intelligent Systems

Evaluation of Affective Intervention Process in Development of Affect-aware Educational Video Games

“…AFFINT approach proposes a ten-step process that formalizes incorporation of affect-awareness into the software development methodology [1]. These ten activities are numbered in the desired application order and mapped into the four stages of system development ( Fig.1): I.…”

“…Fig. 1 AFFINT process of affective intervention design (arrows indicate precedence) [1] IV. EXPERIMENT ASSUMPTIONS Although AFFINT process and its three case studies have been described in details, its applicability in practical software projects remains unknown.…”

“…Existing methodologies of software engineering have no intrinsic rules or templates that would enable development of affect-aware or affective applications. Recently, a new methodology of affective intervention design (AFFINT) has been proposed [1] for development of affect-aware intelligent systems. The proposed process consists of 10 development steps with a predefined order of their implementation.…”

“…In order to effectively implement affect-aware functionality in any application software engineers have to formally define affect model of its user and affective intervention model. The first model defines what emotional states of the user are taken into consideration, while the second one defines conditions and realization way of the performed affective intervention [1]. What is the most important these models have to be defined in the very early development stage of software development, regardless the methodology used.…”

“…Unfortunately, there are no specific software development methodologies defined for development of affect-aware of affective applications and AFFINT process is the only formalized proposition enabling the design and evaluation of affective intervention models [1]. Affect-aware and affective software is obviously dependent on various methods of recognition or estimation of user's emotion.…”