EnviroPulse: Providing Feedback about the Expected Affective Valence of the Environment

摘要: Interacting with nature is beneficial to a person's mental-state, but it can sometimes be difficult find environments that will induce positive affect (e.g., when planning run). In this paper, we describe EnviroPulse-a system for auto-matically determining and communicating the expected affective valence (EAV) of individuals. We prototype allows used in real-time on smartphone, EnviroPulse could easily incorporated into GPS systems, mapping services, or image-based systems. Our work differs from existing af-fective computing that, rather than detecting user's directly, automatically determine EAV environment through visual analysis. present results suggest our envi-ronments. also introduce feedback calculated images, an informal study suggesting induction affect.