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stressful or pleasurable, and may affect future behaviors. Another interesting application of environ-
mental sensors to emotional well- being is the AffectAura [151] project. This system continuously
predicts users’ valence, arousal, and engagement based on information gathered from a webcam,
kinect sensor, microphone, electrodermal activity sensor, GPS, file activity sensor, and calendar
scraper. The u sers were allowed to leverage cue s from AffectAura to construct stories about their
days, even after they had forgotten particular incidents or their related emotional tones. Another
project, EmoSoNet [2 60], introduces an emotion-aware social network for the purpose of increas-
ing emotional well-being. T he framework ...