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EmoClock: Communicating Real-Time Emotional States Through Data Physicalizations

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Expressive interfaces that communicate human emotional state (e.g., level of arousal) are beneficial to many applications. In this work, we use a research-through-design approach to learn about the challenges and opportunities involved in physicalizing emotional data derived from biosignals in real-time. We present EmoClock, a physicalization that uses a clock as a metaphor to communicate arousal and valence derived from biosignal data and lessons learned from its evaluation.

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Peeters, D., Ranasinghe, C., Degbelo, A., Ahmed, F. (2023). EmoClock: Communicating Real-Time Emotional States Through Data Physicalizations. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_26

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