The emotional economy for the augmented human

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Marc Seigneur

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Geneva, Carouge, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd Augmented Human International Conference
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Happiness research findings are increasingly being taken into account in standard economics. However, most findings are based on a posteriori surveys trying to infer how happy people have been. In this paper, we argue that the advances in wearable computing, especially brain-computer interfaces, can lead to realtime measurements of happiness. We then propose a new kind of economy model where people pay depending on the emotions they have experienced. We have combined current commercial-on-the-shelf software and hardware components to create a proof-of-concept of the model.