VALENCE: affective visualisation using EEG

VALENCE is an interactive visualisation controlled by live brainwave monitoring. We used a wireless EEG headset to monitor the player's alpha waves (an indicator of relaxation) and valence (an indicator of emotion or arousal). The game world is an emergent system of attractive and repulsive for...

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Published inDigital creativity (Exeter) Vol. 23; no. 3-4; pp. 272 - 277
Main Authors De Smedt, Tom, Menschaert, Lieven
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 01.12.2012
Subjects
brain computer interface
EEG
emotion sensing
games
generative art
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Summary:VALENCE is an interactive visualisation controlled by live brainwave monitoring. We used a wireless EEG headset to monitor the player's alpha waves (an indicator of relaxation) and valence (an indicator of emotion or arousal). The game world is an emergent system of attractive and repulsive forces responding to EEG input.
ISSN:1462-6268
1744-3806
DOI:10.1080/14626268.2012.719240