Demo: Continuous Emotional Status in Mobile-Mediated Communications

Abstract

Our research attempts to intervene in mobile online text chat by detecting and displaying users’ emotional reactions during conversations. As an evolution of [2], we enhance the conveying of emotions in online text chat not only by inserting emotional reaction statements (e.g. “John smiles”) to the conversation thread, but also continuously informing the emotional status of the chat partner. This novel feature is a result of tests and interviews in the context of a usability laboratory.