Sensors 2016, 16(12), 1980; https://doi.org/10.3390/s16121980
Emotion-Bracelet: A Web Service for Expressing Emotions through an Electronic Interface
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Computer Science Department, National Centre for Research and Technology Development, Cuernavaca 62490, Mexico
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INFOTEC Center for Research and Innovation in Information Technology and Communications, Mexico City 14050, Mexico
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Academic Editor: Miguel González-Mendoza
Received: 1 June 2016 / Revised: 23 October 2016 / Accepted: 9 November 2016 / Published: 24 November 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Selected Papers from MICAI 2013, 2014 and 2015—12th, 13th and 14th Mexican International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence)
Abstract
The mechanisms to communicate emotions have dramatically changed in the last 10 years with social networks, where users massively communicate their emotional states by using the Internet. However, people with socialization problems have difficulty expressing their emotions verbally or interpreting the environment and providing an appropriate emotional response. In this paper, a novel solution called the Emotion-Bracelet is presented that combines a hardware device and a software system. The proposed approach identifies the polarity and emotional intensity of texts published on a social network site by performing real-time processing using a web service. It also shows emotions with a LED matrix using five emoticons that represent positive, very positive, negative, very negative, and neutral states. The Emotion-Bracelet is designed to help people express their emotions in a non-intrusive way, thereby expanding the social aspect of human emotions. View Full-TextKeywords:
the Emotion-Bracelet; polarity; emotions
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Martinez, A.; Estrada, H.; Molina, A.; Mejia, M.; Perez, J. Emotion-Bracelet: A Web Service for Expressing Emotions through an Electronic Interface. Sensors 2016, 16, 1980.
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