Author: NM
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Affect Computing: Designing for form and function
Balancing form and function is not a new challenge. When deciding what matters more, usability has dominated the conversation within the world of Human-Centered Interaction/ Computing (HCI/ HCC) and has often outweighed form. This can be contributed to the fact that practitioners and researchers are introduced to the usability principles developed by Nielsen Norman Group…
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Affect Computing: Mimicking Human Behavior
Synchrony can be thought of as a behavioral dance that occurs when we communicate with each other [1,2]. It is a natural part of communication that includes mimicking each other in language and movement during conversation [1,2]. Through synchrony, we are able to display a form of engagement and understanding of each other when we…
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Affect Computing: Designing for Reflection
With the rise of wearables and well-being applications, the need for application design to facilitate and promote reflection through meaningful design is a must. As users are able to catalog a variety of bio-metric data, the presentation, integration, interactivity, and exploratory abilities need to be considered in addition to how the primary dashboard will present…
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Affect Computing: Mental Health Care
Creating technology that empowers users’ in their health management has been a critical area of growth within the HCI/ tech and healthcare community. Healthcare within the US is often inaccessible and typically only accessible for those who are privileged enough to afford or have access to it. Additionally, those who have a high level of…
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Affect Computing: Developing Affect Systems
Developing systems to respond, recognize or record affect in a meaningful manner requires copious amounts of initial data and participants willingness to share their most intimate details. But how as researchers and designers do we determine when we have enough data, who to include and exclude, and what to include. When developing systems to aid…
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Affective Computing: Mind and Body
Emotions aren’t just experienced through thoughts or feelings trapped within our skulls. We experience our emotions through out our entire being. Our mind and body working as one. If we are trying to understand emotions (or affect), this begs the question, can we capture and understand emotions through collecting data using bio-metrics? In early studies…
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Affective Computing: Designing for Perception
Can we design systems that allow users to represent their emotion or feeling through simplistic visual representations? As always with HCI, it depends.
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Affective Computing: Ethics of it all
Ethical and moral dilemmas are not out of the ordinary to computer/ electronic technology. When it comes to affective computing they hit closer to home because it involves the most intimate part of ones existence. When the most intimate aspect of being human is involved, treading with caution is required. Being able to feel, express,…
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Affective Computing
To understand the principles of Affective Computing, we must explore the foundational parts that Affective Computing is built on. In her book titled Affective Computing, Picard began to lay the foundational groundwork of what we call Affective computing [3]. Chapter one starts with defining concepts, definitions, and utilizing developed theories to develop an Affective Computing…
Nikki Monczewski 