In the past, affective computing fields have focused on technical aspects of emotion recognition accuracy, leaving many questions about user’s responses unanswered. This study was intended to investigate user’ responses to affective intervention o...
In the past, affective computing fields have focused on technical aspects of emotion recognition accuracy, leaving many questions about user’s responses unanswered. This study was intended to investigate user’ responses to affective intervention of computers with the nonverbal emotional channel. Specifically, it was intended to investigate whether the affective intervention has negative influence on participants’s responses to it according to kinds of expression methods of affective recognition feedback(emotional interpretation vs. physiology recognition representation) and the level of their task difficulty. The results that the participants allocated to emotional interpretation condition felt worse about affective computing than those allocated to physiology recognition feedback condition. These tendencies were more salient in case of high level task difficulty. The results from these studies imply that affective intervention with nonverbal emotional channel can bring about privacy invasion and induce users to have negative impression of affective computing.