What is EmoWear?
EmoWear is wearable physiological and motion dataset for emotion recognition and context awareness. Based on this dataset we will create smart systems that are capable of automatically inferring human emotions with simplest hardware and minimum power consumption. With this, EmoWear aims to move the machine intelligence one step forward towards efficient understanding of human emotions, context and interactions. Emo and Wear stand for the words Emotion and Wearable revealing the main focus of the EmoWear study: the use of simple wearable sensors to retrieve physiological signals that are beneficial for uncovering human emotions and context.
During the experiments
During the experiments, participants were asked to wear physiological wearable sensors that measure their body interactions. Some pre-selected short music videos were then shown to them after which they were asked to assess their own emotional state and also walk a few steps in the room and optionally drink from a sensor-attached cup of water. Finally, they were offered a reception at the end of the experiments and received a small memento gift!
What sensors were used?
Physiological data collected in EmoWear are based on mobile wearable sensors rather than medical-grade sensors that are more suitable for clinical setups. We used portable commercial wrist-worn heart and skin monitoring device and chest-worn inertial sensors.
The ultimate aim is to investigate how far we can go to substitute a single simple, low-power, and easy-to-wear, chest-worn sensor with all the other aforementioned wearables and still get more or less the same inference.
Ethics and rights
This study has been reviewed by an independent ethics committee, the Ethics Committee for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EA SHW), which issued a favorable opinion on February 28, 2022. If you would like more information about the privacy policy applied to our institution, you can always visit the 'Privacy Policy' page of the University of Antwerp.
If you believe you have suffered study-related damage or if you have further questions about the content and/or results of the study or your rights as a study participant, now or during or after your participation, please do not hesitate to contact the executive researcher Mohammad Hasan Rahmani (tel.: 03.265.96.98 or email: mohammad.rahmani@uantwerpen.be ).