An intelligent environment to assess auditory emotional recognition

In recent years, mobile devices and applications have known a growth that is unprecedented in any other technological field, reaching virtually all aspects of our lives including sports, leisure, social relationships or health. This paper describes the development of an environment to assess auditory emotional recognition based on a mobile application. The primary aim of this work is to provide a valuable instrument that can be used both in research and clinical settings, responding to the strong need of validated measures of emotional processing in Portugal. The secondary aim is to study behavioral features, acquired unobtrusively from the interaction of the participant with the device, in search for a relationship with medical conditions, cognitive impairments, auditory emotional recognition or socio-demographic indicators. This will establish the foundation for the prediction of such aspects based on the analysis of people's interaction with technological devices, providing new potentially interesting diagnostic tools.