Emotion Recognition and its Aesthetic Interpretation

3D display cube creates images in real-time

Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has unveiled a new handheld, 3D communications tool. The gCubik, developed by the NICT earlier in the year, reproduces 3D images, inside a 10cm-per-side cube, that are viewable without special glasses. Now, the gCubik+i can generate the images in real-time allowing them to be manipulated using touchscreen panels and on-board motion sensors.

It is well known that facial expressions are the most powerful tools for communicating human emotions. Describing and measuring emotions has always been quite a challenge in many aspects of evolution of arts and technology development.

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In this paper we are introducing an installation and a concept for human emotion recognition, as well as using emotion as a medium for dynamic creation of it's visual interpretation. The main guideline of this project was to give the aesthetic meaning to basic human emotions and providing a visual representation by applying written messages, colour values and graphical forms which reflect the given emotion, creating a unique way to visualize the given state and developing a new type of interaction between users and their own emotions.

Authors: Irena Mihalinec, Radomir Stevanovic, Karolj Skala

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