Visualizing Excitement of Individuals and Groups

Excitement or arousal is one of the main emotional dimensions that affects our lives on a daily basis. We win a tennis match, watch a great movie, get into an argument with a colleague—all of these are instances when most of us experience excitement, yet we do not pay much attention to it. Today, there are few systems that capture our excitement levels and even fewer that actually promote awareness of our most exciting moments. In this paper, we propose a visualization concept for representing individual and group-level excitement for emotional self-awareness and group-level awareness. The data used for the visualization is obtained from smart wristbands worn by each of the users. The visualization uses animated glyphs to generate a real-time representation for each individual’s excitement levels. We introduce two types of encodings for these glyphs: one focusing on capturing both the current excitement and the excitement history, as well as another focusing only on real-time valu...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: IUI
• Authors: Kostiantyn Kucher, Daniel Cernea, Andreas Kerren
• Keywords: IUI 2016, Software Engineering