Emotion-aware intelligent environments: A user perspective

Evidence from areas such as neurology and psychology suggests that emotions are an important element in human decision making. The uncovered relationships between emotions and behaviour appear to be an element that may be successfully employed in human-machine interaction for adapting and optimizing the response of pervasive systems. Although initial work has been undertaken along these lines, a number of elements however technical, ethical, or social issues remain unexplored. The study presented here aims to throw light on the issue of how potential users see the prospect of a physiological emotion detection system that operates inside a domestic environment providing tele-assistance to elderly people. We present results that reveal preliminary information on the utilization, desired system response, and acceptance of such emotion detection system.