title: Emotion-Bracelet: A Web Service for Expressing Emotions through an Electronic Interface.
abstract: The mechanisms to communicate emotions have dramatically changed in the last 10 years with social networks, where users massively communicate their emotional states by using the Internet. However, people with socialization problems have difficulty expressing their emotions verbally or interpreting the environment and providing an appropriate emotional response. In this paper, a novel solution called the Emotion-Bracelet is presented that combines a hardware device and a software system. The proposed approach identifies the polarity and emotional intensity of texts published on a social network site by performing real-time processing using a web service. It also shows emotions with a LED matrix using five emoticons that represent positive, very positive, negative, very negative, and neutral states. The Emotion-Bracelet is designed to help people express their emotions in a non-intrusive way, thereby expanding the social aspect of human emotions.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, National Centre for Research and Technology Development, Cuernavaca 62490, Mexico. amartinez@cenidet.edu.mx.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: INFOTEC Center for Research and Innovation in Information Technology and Communications, Mexico City 14050, Mexico. hugo.estrada@infotec.mx.
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Estrada
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, National Centre for Research and Technology Development, Cuernavaca 62490, Mexico. amolina@cenidet.edu.mx.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, National Centre for Research and Technology Development, Cuernavaca 62490, Mexico. mlavalle@cenidet.edu.mx.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mejia
authors.affiliation: Computer Science Department, National Centre for Research and Technology Development, Cuernavaca 62490, Mexico. jperez@cenidet.edu.mx.
authors.forename: Joaquin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D000076251:Wearable Electronic Devices
keywords: emotions; polarity; the Emotion-Bracelet