Affective technologies are the interfaces concerning the emotional artificial intelligence branch known as affective computing (Picard, 1997). Applications such as facial emotion recognition technologies, wearables that can measure your emotional and internal states, social robots interacting with the user by extracting and perhaps generating emotions, voice assistants that can detect your emotional states through modalities such as voice pitch and frequency and so on...
Since these technologies are relatively invasive to our private sphere (feelings), I am trying to find influencing factors that might enhance user acceptance of these types of technologies in everyday life (I am measuring the effects with the TAM). Factors such as trust and privacy might be very obvious, but moderating factors such as gender and age are also very interesting. Furthermore, I need relevant literature which I can ground my work on since I am writing a literature review on this topic.
I am thankful for any kind of help!
Affective technologies like social robots must answer appropriately according to context. For example, if the goal is build empathy (towards human acceptance), social robot must imitate the affect state of humans. In any way, affective technologies need recognize humans emotions first. In this context, we development this paper:
Article Reconocimiento de Estados Emocionales de Personas Mediante l...
I hope it will be useful
Jesús Pérez Thank you very much !!!! Did you by any chance publish this paper in English as well?
The target audience behavior, environment, need and user preference/bias. The device for consumption, the price, among others.
In my opinion user own emotional intelligence is important. If someone only feels sad or angry or happy the range is so limited it won't prompt them to properly engage with these technologies. People who experience /cultivate a wider range of emotions like curiosity and joy and at times feel playful or critical or thankful are likely to be more open to new solutions. Daniel Goleman's work on emotional intelligence is a good point to start.
Hi, Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has done some interesting work on Affective Technology and Affective Management towards Affective Society. The author Hiroyuki Umemuro may be on RG. The article has a long list of references so this could be of an interest to you.
I would say that robot embodiment, aesthetic of the robot, robot design are important factors that are quite often not considered in affective technologies/Human-Robot Interaction. Hopefully, this insight is useful to you. If you check in ACM, and IEEE databases you can see several papers related to this. I have also a paper discussing guidelines in the design of robots but not sure if is relevant for you at this point. Goog luck.
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