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Sensing of Audience Excitation and Boredom Emotion Based on the Synchrony of Sitting Body Sway
Author(s) -
WATAYA RYO,
IWAI DAISUKE,
SATO KOUSUKE
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
electronics and communications in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.131
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1942-9541
pISSN - 1942-9533
DOI - 10.1002/ecj.11627
Subject(s) - boredom , computer science , presentation (obstetrics) , audience response , focus (optics) , human–computer interaction , multimedia , notice , sitting , target audience , psychology , advertising , social psychology , telecommunications , medicine , physics , pathology , law , political science , optics , business , radiology
SUMMARY More and more recent studies of emotion estimation have taken the approach of ambient sensing, where users are monitored without constraining their bodies and without being aware of the sensing system. Few of them, however, focus on audience emotions. We attempted to examine audience emotions, which are difficult to estimate when using only individual data, and which come to be estimated more easily when using ambient sensing of synchrony among multiple users. We developed an ambient sensing chair , which employs wireless sensors to determine the center of force of the seated user, and designed an experiment for an audience watching a soccer game on TV or a technical presentation in order to examine the relationship between audience body sway and emotional states in a natural situation. We found that synchrony could be well correlated with audience excitement and boredom, something not observable in the individual data. These results indicate the possibility of development of service marketing systems that evaluate TV content, and feedback systems that give notice of the emotional state of an audience to a presenter.