Tag: Writing
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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: 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 