Emotion-Bracelet: A Web Service for Expressing Emotions through an Electronic Interface

Alicia Martinez, Hugo Estrada, Alejandra Molina, Manuel Mejia, Joaquin Perez
2016 Sensors  
The mechanisms to communicate emotions have dramatically changed in the last 10 years with social networks, where users massively communicate their emotional states by using the Internet. However, people with socialization problems have difficulty expressing their emotions verbally or interpreting the environment and providing an appropriate emotional response. In this paper, a novel solution called the Emotion-Bracelet is presented that combines a hardware device and a software system. The
more » ... osed approach identifies the polarity and emotional intensity of texts published on a social network site by performing real-time processing using a web service. It also shows emotions with a LED matrix using five emoticons that represent positive, very positive, negative, very negative, and neutral states. The Emotion-Bracelet is designed to help people express their emotions in a non-intrusive way, thereby expanding the social aspect of human emotions.
doi:10.3390/s16121980 pmid:27886130 pmcid:PMC5190963 fatcat:ivjqfi4qijewfomzc3oc6ijwoi