CoSense: Creating Shared Emotional Experiences

Abstract

In this paper we describe a prototype wearable interface that shares a user's first person view and their current emotional state with a remote user in order to create a shared emotional experience. A user evaluation was conducted to explore which interface cues best helped a remote user understand what the local user was feeling. The results showed simple visual cues provided a significantly enhanced experience over no cues at all, or a more detailed data representation.