Co-exploring the Design Space of Emotional AR Visualizations

EMOTE: An interactive online tool for designing real-time emotional AR visualizations

“…All in all, emotion visualization in HCI generally focuses on specific contexts, such as self-tracking [33], emotion awareness and regulation [13], therapy support [8], and a generalizable approach is lacking. A recent approach towards a generalizable, design-focused visualization framework is [29]. With this work, we aim to validate this framework for emotion visualization in AR and provide suggestions for its improvement and future use.…”

“…Our work is heavily based on an emotion visualization framework [29], which provides design decisions that were found to help design emotion visualizations to be displayed in AR environments.…”

“…This paper focuses on the design space of expressive emotion visualizations that can appear around one's body as they experience the referenced emotional states. As a basis for our work, we refer to a framework on emotion visualization for AR [29], which outlines some essential steps in the design process, including parameters to track, visual attributes that can be used, and the placement of visuals.…”

“…Although the existing literature presents findings on emotion visualization, most of it is in written format reporting specific use cases; this makes it hard for design practitioners to dilute the information they can use during the design process, besides academic resources not being very accessible. With the motivation of filling this gap and providing an accessible online resource for designers, we developed a website that builds upon the framework mentioned above [29]. The website features an interactive tool that visualizes design choices presented by the framework to make them easier to understand.…”

“…We share insights on our participants' experiences with this tool, the effect of the framework on the design process, and how it can be expanded. This paper contributes to the XR literature with a discussion on important aspects of emotion visualization, suggesting improvements for an existing framework [29] and presents an online tool that might inform and inspire designers and researchers alike.…”