Music, Heart Rate, and Emotions in the Context of Stimulating Technologies

Anttonen, Jenni; Surakka, Veikko

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_26

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“…The Quatech DAQP-16 card digitized the heart rate signal to a PC with a Windows XP operating system. The EMFi chair is a regular-looking office chair that has been developed and tested for unobtrusive measuring of heart rate changes [19][20][21]. The chair is embedded with electromechanical film (EMFi) sensors in its seat, backrest, and armrests.…”

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Heart Rate Responses to Synthesized Affective Spoken Words

Ilves

Surakka

2012

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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The present study investigated the effects of brief synthesized spoken words with emotional content on the ratings of emotions and heart rate responses. Twenty participants' heart rate functioning was measured while they listened to a set of emotionally negative, neutral, and positive words produced by speech synthesizers. At the end of the experiment, ratings of emotional experiences were also collected. The results showed that the ratings of the words were in accordance with their valence. Heart rate deceleration was significantly the strongest and most prolonged to the negative stimuli. The findings are the first suggesting that brief spoken emotionally toned words evoke a similar heart rate response pattern found earlier for more sustained emotional stimuli.

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Section: Equipmentmentioning

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Heart Rate Responses to Synthesized Affective Spoken Words

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Surakka

2012

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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“…The results also suggest that heart rate responses are more decelerated and the effect of valence is observed when the level of experienced arousal is higher as compared to an arousal experienced as modest. So far, we have shown evidence for a decelerating heart rate response pattern to static and dynamic negative emotional stimulation using both visual and auditory modalities (Anttonen & Surakka, 2005, 2007).…”

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“…Recently, sensor technologies have become smaller, wireless, and less invasive. One example of sophisticated perceptual technology is the EMFi chair that can be used to measure the user’s emotion-related heart rate responses without attaching any sensors (Anttonen & Surakka, 2005, 2007). It is a normal-looking office chair (see Figure 1) that is embedded with electromechanical film (EMFi) sensors in its seat, back rest, and arm rests.…”

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Ballistocardiographic Responses to Dynamic Facial Displays of Emotion While Sitting on the EMFi Chair

Anttonen

Surakka

Koivuluoma

2009

Journal of Media Psychology

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The aim of the present paper was to study heart rate changes during a video stimulation depicting two actors (male and female) producing dynamic facial expressions of happiness, sadness, and a neutral expression. We measured ballistocardiographic emotion-related heart rate responses with an unobtrusive measurement device called the EMFi chair. Ratings of subjective responses to the video stimuli were also collected. The results showed that the video stimuli evoked significantly different ratings of emotional valence and arousal. Heart rate decelerated in response to all stimuli and the deceleration was the strongest during negative stimulation. Furthermore, stimuli from the male actor evoked significantly larger arousal ratings and heart rate responses than the stimuli from the female actor. The results also showed differential responding between female and male participants. The present results support the hypothesis that heart rate decelerates in response to films depicting dynamic negative facial expressions. The present results also support the idea that the EMFi chair can be used to perceive emotional responses from people while they are interacting with technology.

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“…Th is kind of research can be carried out in the fi eld of neuroergonomics , which uses biopsychological techniques to analyse needs and motives. For example, an individual's heart rate can be used to analyse stress during technology use (Anttonen and Surakka 2007 ).…”

Section: User Motivation: Biological Cognitive Emotional and Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%