6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

AffectAura: Emotional Wellbeing Reflection System

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2012.248727,
        author={Daniel McDuff and Amy Karlson and Ashish Kapoor and Asta Roseway and Mary Czerwinski},
        title={AffectAura: Emotional Wellbeing Reflection System},
        proceedings={6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={7},
        keywords={emotion wellbeing visualization life logging},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2012.248727}
    }
    
  • Daniel McDuff
    Amy Karlson
    Ashish Kapoor
    Asta Roseway
    Mary Czerwinski
    Year: 2012
    AffectAura: Emotional Wellbeing Reflection System
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2012.248727
Daniel McDuff1,*, Amy Karlson2, Ashish Kapoor2, Asta Roseway2, Mary Czerwinski2
  • 1: MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, USA
  • 2: Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, USA
*Contact email: djmcduff@mit.edu

Abstract

Emotional health is of huge importance to our quality of life. However, monitoring emotional wellbeing is challenging. AffectAura is an emotional prosthetic that allows users to reflect on their emotional states over long periods of time. The system continuously predicts user’s valence, arousal and engagement based on information gathered from a multimodal sensor setup. The interface combines these predictions with rich contextual information and allows the user to explore the data. AffectAura has been validated on 100’s of hours of data recorded from multiple people who found the system allowed them to reason forward and backward in time about their emotional experiences. This project illustrates the first longitudinally evaluated emotional memory system.