Using thermal stimuli to enhance photo-sharing in social media

Akazue, Moses and Halvey, Martin and Baillie, Lynne (2017) Using thermal stimuli to enhance photo-sharing in social media. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1 (2). 4. ISSN 2474-9567 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3090050)

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Abstract

Limited work has been undertaken to show how the emotive ability of thermal stimuli can be used for interaction purposes. One potential application area is using thermal stimuli to influence emotions in images shared online such as social media platforms. This paper presents a two-part study, which examines how the documented emotive property of thermal stimuli can be applied to enhance social media images. Participants in part-one supplied images from their personal collection or social media profiles, and were asked to augment each image with thermal stimuli based on the emotions they wanted to enhance or reduce. Part-one participants were interviewed to understand the effects they wanted augmented images to have. In part-two, these augmented images were perceived by a different set of participants in a simulated social media interface. Results showed strong agreement between the emotions augmented images were designed to evoke and the emotions they actually evoked as perceived by part-two participants. Participants in part-one selected thermal stimuli augmentation intended to modulate valence and arousal in images as a way of enhancing the realism of the images augmented. Part-two results indicate this was achieved as participants perceived thermal stimuli augmentation reduced valence in negative images and modulated valence and arousal in positive images.

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Akazue, Moses, Halvey, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-8679 and Baillie, Lynne;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:60459
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 June 2017
    Published
    13 April 2017
    Accepted
    Notes:© Owner/Author | ACM 2017. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in IMWUT Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, http://dx.doi.org/0.1145/3090050.
    Subjects:Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:18 Apr 2017 12:30
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:41
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60459
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