New mechanisms for privacy in human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems

Nowadays, we witness a tremendous increase in systems that sense various facets of humans and their surrounding environments. In particular, the detection of human emotions can lead to emotionally-aware applications that use this information to help improving people´s daily lives and offering new business opportunities. We address the issue of maintaining privacy for this type of applications. In this paper, we propose a general model that focuses on privacy-preserving mechanisms for a Human-in-the-loop emotionally-aware Cyber-Physical System (HiTLCPS). As a proof-of-concept, we also present an emotionally aware application that attempts to positively impact students´ lives without compromising their privacy¹.