Affective rendering: Visual effect animations for affecting user arousal

Author

Omata, Masaki ; Moriwaki, Kazuya ; Mao, Xiaoyang ; Kanuka, Daisuke ; Imamiya, Atsumi

Author_Institution

Interdiscipl. Grad. Sch. of Med. & Eng., Univ. of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

10-12 May 2012

Firstpage

737

Lastpage

742

Abstract

We propose affective rendering as a new affective computing technology which deals with user emotion in the field of image synthesis. Affective rendering is realized in 3 steps - affect sensing, affect analysis and affect adapted rendering. This paper reports several basic experiments carried out for studying how the typical visual parameters, such as color and shape, affect view´s arousal, and also describes a prototyping of visual effect animations that can affect viewer´s arousal by adapting the visual parameters to user´s current arousal estimated from respiration and blood volume.

Keywords

computer animation; rendering (computer graphics); affect adapted rendering; affect analysis; affect sensing; affective computing technology; affective rendering; blood volume; color; image synthesis; respiration; shape; user arousal; user emotion; visual effect animations; visual parameters; Animation; Hafnium; Image color analysis; Physiology; Rendering (computer graphics); Sensors; Visualization; affective rendering; animation; arousal; physiological data; visual effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tangier

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1518-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMCS.2012.6320159

Filename

6320159