Computer Science and Engineering in Health Services. 5th EAI International Conference, COMPSE 2021, Virtual Event, July 29, 2021, Proceedings

Research Article

A Data-Driven Study to Highlight the Correlations Between Ambient Factors and Emotion

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-87495-7_8,
        author={Saeid Pourroostaei Ardakani and Xinyang Liu and Hongcheng Xie},
        title={A Data-Driven Study to Highlight the Correlations Between Ambient Factors and Emotion},
        proceedings={Computer Science and Engineering in Health Services. 5th EAI International Conference, COMPSE 2021, Virtual Event, July 29, 2021, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={COMPSE},
        year={2021},
        month={9},
        keywords={Emotion Mental healthcare Ambient factors EEG},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-87495-7_8}
    }
    
  • Saeid Pourroostaei Ardakani
    Xinyang Liu
    Hongcheng Xie
    Year: 2021
    A Data-Driven Study to Highlight the Correlations Between Ambient Factors and Emotion
    COMPSE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87495-7_8
Saeid Pourroostaei Ardakani1, Xinyang Liu1, Hongcheng Xie1
  • 1: University of Nottingham

Abstract

Emotion can be impacted by a variety of environmental or ambient factors. This means, people might show different affective reactions in response to ambient factors such as noise, temperature and humidity. Annoying ambient conditions (e.g., loud noise) may negatively influence people emotion and consequently address serious mental diseases. For this, ambient factors should be monitored and managed according to the users’ preference to increase their statistician, enhance living experience quality and reduce mental-health risks. The purpose of this research is to study and predict the correlations between emotion and two ambient factors including temperature, and noise. For this, a system architecture is designed to measure user’s affect in response to the indoor ambient factors. This system is tested in three experimental scenarios each of which with 15 participants. Ambient data is collected using an IoT enabled sensor network, whereas brainwaves are collected using an EEG. The brain signals are interpreted using a well-know API to recognise emotion state. Yet, two machine learning techniques KNN and DNN are used to analyse and predict emotional statues according to changing ambient temperature and noise. According to the results, DNN has a better accuracy to predict the emotional status as compared to KNN. Moreover, it shows that both noise and temperature are positively correlated to arousal and emotional status. Moreover, the results address that noise has a greater impact on emotion as compared to temperature.