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Interaction Design, 5th Edition
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Interaction Design, 5th Edition

by Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
656 pages
23h 33m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 6EMOTIONAL INTERACTION

 

6.1 Introduction

When you receive some bad news, how does it affect you? Do you feel upset, sad, angry, or annoyed—or all of these? Does it put you in a bad mood for the rest of the day? How might technology help? Imagine a wearable technology that could detect how you were feeling and provide a certain kind of information and suggestions geared toward helping to improve your mood, especially if it detected that you were having a real downer of a day. Would you find such a device helpful, or would you find it unnerving that a machine was trying to cheer you up? Designing technology to detect and recognize someone's emotions automatically from sensing aspects of their facial expressions, body movements, gestures, and so forth, is a growing area of research ...

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