Eyewear to Make Me Smile: Can Electric Muscle Stimulation increase Happiness?

Abstract

This paper suggests a demonstration to make users smile using electr ical muscle stimulation (EMS). We present our first insights in how to use an unobtr usive EMS setup to stimulate smiles and showed first findings from our entr y in this year's student innovation competition at an inter national HCI conference. We also outline our approach and follow up exper iments to potentially use this technology to improve user's mood.