Exploring social and temporal dimensions of emotion induction using an adaptive affective mirror

  • Authors:
  • Suleman Shahid;Emiel Krahmer;Marc Swerts;Willem A. Melder;Mark A. Neerincx

  • Affiliations:
  • Tilburg Center for Creative Computing, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;Tilburg Center for Creative Computing, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;Tilburg Center for Creative Computing, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands;TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, Netherlands;Delft University of Technology/TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper investigates if and how a digital, interactive affective mirror induces positive emotions in participants. We study whether the induced affect is repeatable after a fixed interval (Study 1) and how the social presence affects the emotion induction (Study 2). Results show that participants systematically feel more positive after an affective mirror session; this effect is shown to be repeatable, and co-presence of a friend is shown to boost this effect.