MAmIoTie: An Affective and Sensorized Toy to Support Emotion Perception

Affective Computing aims at developing systems to recognize, process and interpret emotions. This paper presents a sensorized toy with affective functionalities through cognitive services based on IBM Watson technology. The purpose of this research is to improve the quality of life through the assis...

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Published inProceedings Vol. 2; no. 19; p. 1209
Main Authors Raúl García-Hidalgo, Esperanza Johnson, Ramón Hervás, Iván González, Tania Mondéjar, José Bravo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 01.10.2018
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affective computing
assistive technologies
cognitive computing
emotion perception
IOT
sensorized toys
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Summary:Affective Computing aims at developing systems to recognize, process and interpret emotions. This paper presents a sensorized toy with affective functionalities through cognitive services based on IBM Watson technology. The purpose of this research is to improve the quality of life through the assistance oftherapies with children and preadolescents to support emotion perception. This is focused from three points of view: (a) self-perception, (b) empathy and, (c) social-emotional skills. MAmIoTie was evaluated with 10 healthy preadolescent subjects to assess how effectively it analyzes users’ emotional perception. The results were generally positive in terms of analysis, though there were aspects that behaved in a way we did not expect.
ISSN:2504-3900
DOI:10.3390/proceedings2191209