Paper presented at XIV International Conference on "Information Visualisations" by IEEE - London South Bank University, London (UK), 26-29 july 2010 Link: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/

1. Wearing
Emotions
Physical representation and visualization of human
emotions using wearable technologies
Salvatore Iaconesi [ salvatore.iaconesi@artisopensource.net ]
FakePress [ http://www.fakepress.it ]

2. introductions
Salvatore Iaconesi

3. next step publishing
no books
multi-author, open-ended, ubiquitous narratives
publishing for bodies, objects, architectures, places

4. A question:
How do you publish
EMOTIONS
?

5. EMOTIONS

6. EMOTIONS
physiological
physiological arousal
psychological conscious
experience
cultural
behaviour

7. Stoics
Plato
Aristotele
Descartes
EMOTIONS
Spinoza
Hume
Broca
James-Lange
Cannon
Bard
Arnold
Simon
Lazarus
Plutchik
Zajonc
Ekman
Panksepp
Damasio
Solomon
Prinz
Frijda
...

8. EMOTION THEORIES
prefrontal cortex
somatic
James-Lange homeostatic
Cannon-Bard
neurobiological
cognitive
perceptual
two-factor
affective
component-process

9. EMOTION DISCIPLINES
humanistic
communication sciences
neuroscience
psychology economics
law
anthropology
education
linguistics
design political sciences
sociology
philosophy
robotics
computer science
artificial intelligence systems theory

10. VISUALIZING
EMOTIONS

11. We feel fne (Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar)

12. JJ, empathic network visualization (Golan Levin)

13. Synesketch (Uroš Krčadinac)

14. Emotionally vague (Orlagh O'Brien)

15. Twistory (Amy Hoy, Thomas Fuchs)

16. Pulse (Markus Kison)

17. Biomapping (Christian Nold)

18. Realtime emotions (FakePress)

19. Hugshirt (Cutecircuit)

20. Emotion board (IFE Wearable computing, Zurich)

21. Wearable absence (Barbara Layne, Janis Jefferies)

22. GER: Galvanic Extimacy Responder (kristin neidlinger)

23. Smart Second Skin (Jenny Tillotson)

24. The Emotional Wardrobe (Lisa Stead)

25. Philips SKIN

26. ... and many others

27. the Body
visualizes
EMOTIONS

28. phisically
blushing

29. phisically
sweating

30. phisically
gestures

31. phisically
movements

32. and culturally
dance

33. and culturally
tattoos

34. publishing/visualizing
EMOTIONS
on/with
the BODY

35. for
ART/AESTHETICS
EXPRESSION
COMMUNICATION
ORGANIZATION
SCIENCE
CULTURE

36. OBJECTIVE:
research CONTEXT
create GRAMMARS
VISUALIZE/EXPERIENCE

37. SENSOR COMPARATOR ACTUATOR

38. 2
N
1
N remote

39. ISSUES
How do you recognize emotions?

40. ISSUES
How do you compare emotions?

41. ISSUES
How do you
represent/share/aggregate/disseminate
emotions?
?

42. TALKERS PERFORMANCE

43. TALKERS PERFORMANCE

44. TALKERS PERFORMANCE
WEB+ DANCER'S
SOCIAL NETS BODY
EXPERT
SYSTEM
LIVE MULTIMEDIA
AUDIENCE ENVIRONMENT

45. TALKERS PERFORMANCE
● people interact with touch interfaces, social networks and mobile phones
● interfaces are designed to express emotions through music, graphics...
● data is gathered and fed to expert system, to aggregate information
● aggregated emotions are used in groups to be visualized:
● dancer's body interprets information as body electric shocks
● video projection 1 generates representation using Plutchick
● video projection 2 generates interferences on vide input
● Speakers on body of dancer generate words according to monitored emotional state

46. ONEAVATAR

47. ONEAVATAR

48. ONEAVATAR
Physical Body connects to the Digital Body of the Avatar
SENSES TRANSFORMS ENACTS
PHYSICAL DIGITAL
BODY BODY
ENACTS TRANSFORMS SENSES
Interactions transfer emotions across digital/analog boundaries

49. ONEAVATAR

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51. ONEAVATAR

52. CONFERENCE
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58. THANK
YOU