Tag: Blog
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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: 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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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
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 