{"title":"Pilot study on the biological responses to pleasant video stimuli in different intensities","authors":"M. Yamashita, Yoshitaka Itoh","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.57","url":null,"abstract":"To provide evidence-based measures in health management and offer comfort services, it is important to assess emotions objectively. Recently, positive psychology has garnered considerable attention, and its effects have been verified as an early recovery effect during rehabilitation. In this study, to investigate the relationship between the biological responses corresponding to pleasant stimuli and elicited subjective strengths of pleasure, an experiment was conducted using sports videos with different pleasure strengths; in addition, biological responses were measured with collecting subjective ratings and analyzed. The two-minute length video stimuli for the experiment were set, such that the elicited pleasant strengths differed in the preliminary survey. In total, 15 healthy adults participated in the study. Photoplethysmography, respiratory waves, electrocardiograms, and continuous blood pressure waves were measured and analyzed. \u0000 \u0000In the results, although the stimuli used here elicited pleasant emotions, a problem in setting the proper strengths still remained. Regarding biological responses, systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, and combined parameters of blood pressure wave components exhibited significant differences between stimulus levels. Finally, the combined parameters of the blood pressure wave components exhibited responses of graded intensity, and the magnitudes of these parameters were correlated with subjective rating scores.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128623289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling emotional valence and arousal of non-linguistic utterances for sound design support","authors":"A. Khota, E. Cooper, Yu Yan, Máté Kovács","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.52","url":null,"abstract":"Non-Linguistic Utterances (NLUs), produced for popular media, computers, robots, and public spaces, can quickly and wordlessly convey emotional characteristics of a message. They have been studied in terms of their ability to convey affect in robot communication. The objective of this research is to develop a model that correctly infers the emotional Valence and Arousal of an NLU. On a Likert scale, 17 subjects evaluated the relative Valence and Arousal of 560 sounds collected from popular movies, TV shows, and video games, including NLUs and other character utterances. Three audio feature sets were used to extract features including spectral energy, spectral spread, zero-crossing rate (ZCR), Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), and audio chroma, as well as pitch, jitter, formant, shimmer, loudness, and Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio, among others. After feature reduction by Factor Analysis, the best-performing models inferred average Valence with a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.107 and Arousal with MAE of 0.097 on audio samples removed from the training stages. These results suggest the model infers Valence and Arousal of most NLUs to less than the difference between successive rating points on the 7-point Likert scale (0.14). This inference system is applicable to the development of novel NLUs to augment robot-human communication or to the design of sounds for other systems, machines, and settings.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126395256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the colors of interior accessories in forming an impression of a room","authors":"Naoki Takahashi, Yuri Hamada, H. Shoji","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.69","url":null,"abstract":"When purchasing home interior furniture and accessories, several factors determine the color of the items that are chosen. People imagine how the item will look when actually placed in the room, anticipating whether it will fit in with the room or create the image they want. In order to help people make such decisions during shopping in stores and online, we analyzed the relationship between room color and item color. We prepared a photo of a home interior, processed the color of one item in the photo, and asked subjects about their impression of it. The color of the item was chosen from the colors used in the picture so that it could work in harmony with the room. Through the experiment, we found that even the color of a small item can affect the impression of an entire room.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121699163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sanket Rajeev Sabharwal, Arianna Musso, M. Breaden, Eva Riccomagno, A. Camurri, P. Keller
{"title":"Analyzing directionality of influence among ensemble musicians using Granger Causality","authors":"Sanket Rajeev Sabharwal, Arianna Musso, M. Breaden, Eva Riccomagno, A. Camurri, P. Keller","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.10","url":null,"abstract":"In small musical groups, performers can seem to coordinate their movements almost effortlessly in remarkable exhibits of joint action and entrainment. To achieve a common musical goal, co-performers interact and communicate using non-verbal means such as upper-body movements, and particularly head motion. Studying these phenomena in naturalistic contexts can be challenging since most techniques make use of motion capture technologies that can be intrusive and costly. To investigate an alternative method, we analyze video recordings of a professional instrumental ensemble by extracting trajectory information using pose estimation algorithms. We examine Kansei perspectives such as the analysis of non-verbal expression conveyed by bodily movements and gestures, and test for causal relationships and directed influence between performers using the Granger Causality method. We compute weighted probabilities representing the likelihood that each performer Granger Causes co-performers’ movements. Effects of different aspects of musical textures were examined and results indicated stronger directionality for homophonic textures (clear melodic leader) than polyphonic (ambiguous leadership).","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124066771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of nonverbal communication on Chatbot's perceived personality and user satisfaction","authors":"Hsiao-Chen You, H. Weng","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.26","url":null,"abstract":"As artificial intelligence develops rapidly, companies have created exclusive chatbots to facilitate conversational commerce and establish an emotional connection between their brands and their customers. Therefore, shaping the chatbot personality to match the brand image is often the focus of chatbot design. Two studies were conducted to investigate how nonverbal communication elements (avatar, sticker, emoji) affect users' judgment of chatbot personality and explore the effect of chatbot personality on user satisfaction. In Study 1, Kansei engineering was adopted to conduct an online survey using six combinations of nonverbal elements as experimental conditions and the five dimensions of the Brand Personality Scale as Kansei vocabularies. The results revealed that the three nonverbal elements did affect users' perceptions of chatbot personalities; however, the impacts of each element on different personality dimensions varied. In Study 2, based on Study 1, two crowdfunding chatbots with distinct personality traits, sincere and insincere, were developed as the experimental conditions to interact with participants within FB messenger. One hundred fifty valid questionnaires and the click rate of participants during the experiment were collected to measure participants' satisfaction. The results showed that participants were more satisfied with the sincere chatbot than the insincere chatbot. In addition, the personality of the chatbots also affected the participants' judgment of the quality of the messages as well as their willingness to use the chatbots.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133071695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Material derivation affects the perception of sustainability in polymer products","authors":"Kiersten Muenchinger","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.51","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing demand for “natural” products by consumers, businesses, scientists and product developers. Trends suggest that the term natural may be colloquially understood to be a plant-based material or ingredient. This study investigates whether this trend could apply to polymers by declaring the derivation of the polymer as a plant or as petroleum. Because polymer materials do provide environmentally positive attributes for products in relation to other materials, such as lightweighting, durability, and lower fabrication energy requirements, it may be helpful to understand the influence of a polymer’s derivation on the perception of a polymer product’s sustainability. The goal of this study is to assess peoples’ relative perceptions of the sustainabilities of polymer drinking cups when the base materials from which the polymers were derived are exposed. A set of six injection-molded drinking cups was given to research subjects to analyze. Each cup is made of a different polymer. The polymers have derivations including petroleum, corn, sugar and trees. Participants evaluated the cups on six qualitative design strategies for sustainability, including natural-ness. This paper compares the perceived sustainable attributes of the cups, and which attributes were most strongly influenced by revealing the derivation of the polymers.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133949261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Ibrahim, Zafir Khan Mohamed Makhbul, A. Ayob, M. Nagamachi, A. Lokman
{"title":"Conceptualising Kansei in Affective Work Events Counterproductive Work Behaviour Model","authors":"N. Ibrahim, Zafir Khan Mohamed Makhbul, A. Ayob, M. Nagamachi, A. Lokman","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.16","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on Counterproductive Work Behaviour (CWB) have attracted wide interest among scholars. CWB is a subset of unethical behaviour that seems unbearable since it intentionally harms both organisations and people in the organisations. In general, literature holds that CWB is determined by work events and affective state. However, most studies are restricted to examining a single work event which prevents us from understanding the simultaneous effect of multiple work events. In addition, prior research widely utilised a self-reporting mechanism in capturing the affective experiences at work resulting in common method bias and other issues like time constraints, low response rate, etc. Drawing on Affective Events Theory (AET), affective work events, and CWB literature, this article provides an important extension to the CWB literature by proposing multiple work events that predict affective experiences and CWB at work. Additionally, the Kansei Engineering-Kawakita Jiro method is introduced as a substitute for the existing self-reporting mechanism in capturing affective work events. This article offers theoretical insights that may facilitate empirical research to explore the role of affective experiences within the CWB spectrum. The introduced conceptual ideas are targeted to be a useful guide for practitioners to craft appropriate strategies to combat employees’ CWB.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134013084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What kind of information attracts consumers' attention? Studying the differences in the amount of information on the landing page of a product","authors":"Yuri Hamada, Naoki Takahashi, H. Shoji","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.73","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to determine the amount of information that is interesting to users on a landing page for the purpose of purchasing a product. In this study, we clarified the amount and kind of information that attracts the interest of users. Specifically, we created three types of landing pages with different amounts of information for three products, and conducted an impression evaluation questionnaire. The three types of information on the landing pages were: (1) product image, product description, and catch copy, (2) one with additional campaign information, and (3) one with additional product sales results and satisfaction levels. Using the impression evaluation data obtained after the questionnaire survey, we conducted a factor analysis for each product and analyzed the factors that influenced the evaluation. Additionally, we found out the website design that made a difference in the willingness to purchase the products and the evaluation items that caused the difference using a t-test. It was found that users' willingness to purchase the product increased when data such as campaign information and actual results were included, and that reliability affected the willingness to purchase, especially for products that are used for a long time.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"330 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134263700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Bayarri-Porcar, M. Vergara, J. Sancho-Bru, María-Jesús Agost-Torres, A. Roda-Sales
{"title":"An eye-tracking study to assess the perception of usability affordances of assistive devices. An application to jar openers","authors":"V. Bayarri-Porcar, M. Vergara, J. Sancho-Bru, María-Jesús Agost-Torres, A. Roda-Sales","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.07","url":null,"abstract":"Some assistive devices (ADs) aim to ease elders performing daily activities by changing postural and strength requirements. Elders usually have cognitive lacks too, making AD usability perception an important issue. Usability perceptions arise from the affordances conveyed by the AD: design features should act as signifiers transmitting opportunities of how to use the AD. This study assesses the perception of jar openers usability. Eye-tracking (ET) data from 56 subjects were used. Rendered images of 6 ADs were shown, in 2 versions: with and without rubber on the grip area. Each slide showed the 6 ADs, each AD image being an area of interest (AoI) to be tracked. The participants ranked the ADs in the next usability affordances: comfort, effort level, easiness to grip, easiness to use, lid slippery and robustness. For each affordance, they were eye-tracked while deciding the best AD, and afterwards they ranked the other ADs. The ranks were transformed into scores, and their correlation with ET parameters (decision time and number of fixations on each AoI) were studied, along with the effect of the rubber on the scores. Heat maps were also analyzed to identify the signifiers of the ADs that attract attention on usability. The results showed the potentiality of ET to study the perception of ADs usability affordances, and that the addition of rubber on the grip area of the jar openers or the material and shape of the lid area have an effect on their understanding and use.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131213396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological Information Interface Design, System Usability, and User Experience","authors":"Chia-Yin Yu","doi":"10.5821/conference-9788419184849.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.22","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on bird species in Taiwan, investigating the design and usability of an app for Taiwan's endemic bird species through simplified bird images, interactive framework, text icons, and user interface, along with heuristic evaluation and usability testing. The usability test results verified that the app system designed had a usability score of 74.773 with the level between \"good\" and \"excellent\"; and was rated \"excellent\" in dependency, stimulation, and novelty under user experience; was rated \"good\" in attractiveness and efficiency, and was rated \"above average\" in perspicuity. Furthermore, significant usability and user experience differences were observed in introducing bird information between the interface using narrative and text icons. When the same ecological information interactive framework is applied, the use of simplified bird images and text icons helps improve the system's usability, as well as the attractiveness, perspicuity, efficiency, dependability, stimulation, and novelty of the system in terms of user experience.","PeriodicalId":433529,"journal":{"name":"9th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research. KEER2022. Proceedings","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123593317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}