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SUMMARY:Body Movement and touch behaviour as means to recognize and enhanc
 e affective experience - Nadia Berthouze\, UCL
DTSTART:20130620T101500Z
DTEND:20130620T111500Z
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CONTACT:Henrik Lieng
DESCRIPTION:Recent years have seen the emergence of technology that involv
 es\nand requires its users to be engaged through their body. This has open
 ed\nthe possibility to better understand and exploit this modality to capt
 ure\,\nrespond to and regulate users' affective experience. Indeed\, vario
 us\nstudies in psychology have shown that our posture and body movement af
 fect\nour emotional state\, our cognitive abilities and our attitude towar
 ds the\nenvironment around us. In the first part of my talk\, I will repor
 t on our\nstudies aimed at understanding posture\, body movement and touch
  behaviour\nas a means for recognizing affective states\, including laught
 er\, in\nwhole-body games and in clinical contexts. Then\, through the Dig
 ital\nSensoria project\, I’ll discuss how tactile experience can be meas
 ured\,\nsupported and communicated to enrich the digital affective communi
 cation\nchannels. Finally\, I will report on our studies aimed at investig
 ating how\nbody movement qualities can be used to steer the user experienc
 e providing\na principled approach to the design of multi-modal affective 
 technology.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room (SS03)\, Computer Laboratory
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