Emotional space: understanding affective spatial dimensions of constructed embodied shapes

Abstract

We build upon recent research designing a constructive, multi-touch emotional assessment tool and present preliminary qualitative results from a Wizard of Oz study simulating the tool with clay. Our results showed the importance of emotionally contextualized spatial orientations, manipulations, and interactions of real world objects in the constructive process, and led to the identification of two new affective dimensions for the tool.