Design guidelines for Iteration 3

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Combining modes of Breathing, Temperature, and Ears

 

Negative Valence

Positive Valence

High Arousal

(e.g. Distressed, Angry)

Ears back

Huffing

Warm

(e.g. excited, ecstatic)

Ears wiggling

Fast energetic breathing

Warm sensation

Low Arousal

(e.g. depressed, bored)

Asymmetric breathing

long inhale, short exhale

cold

(e.g. calm, relaxed, zen)

Slow breathing

Ears slightly perked

Room temp

 

 

 

Notes from Demos for Haptic Symposium Visitors

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“All make [the phone] seem alive”

Vibrate/waddle: snoring, purring, more whimsical ring, pleasant

Vibrate: buzzing, ramps up/down more smoothly than a regular phone, shivering/cold

Waddle: cat-like when it does it by itself

Breathing: nervous, beating, creature inside, something beating, organic, artificial heart, heart beat, nervous, breathing, creature trying to get out, tapping/poking, know it’s a servo  …feels uneven (to be breathing it needs to be more smooth), the click when it goes down make makes it feel artificial

Ears wiggle: pay attention to me, happy, it’s wiggling its ears, wagging its tail, sounds angry

…when they hold it at the ears end, the other end moves

Ears that move once: pay attention to me when you have time, don’t touch me here, reptilian, muscle tension, curling up

Hot/cold: cell phones already get hot – normal plugged in electronic

Foam: Very pleasant to touch. Could communicate differently than if they were made of plastic

 

Random Notes/Suggestions:

Almost everyone pushed down hard on the prototype

Add a string gauge…. measures the deformation of a device

Possible reference: Matthew Bowman, Tom Hazelton …emulating attention getting …would be a good reference (emotion expression stuff)

In the area of Organic Haptics

One ‘mode’/area’ we are exploring is Shape changing.

Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro …doing similar research

Meeting Notes – March 1, 2012

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ANGRY / DISTRESSED (NEGATIVE VALENCE, HIGH AROUSAL)

  • fast/strong vibrate or breathing, and heat
  • red
  • red and fast vibrate/breathing
  • ears/body shape and breathing/vibrate
  • tense and breathing/vibrate and red
  • texture??
  • puffed up

EXCITED (POSITIVE VALENCE, HIGH AROUSAL)

  • perked ears and breathing/vibrate
  • large/slow vibration (waddle/rock)
  • color/rainbow (fast color change) and vibrate/breathing

NEUTRAL/AWARE

If the phone is always moving (during neutral), are people more likely to interpret this as the phone’s emotions vs other people emotions?

– living neutral vs phone neutral/phone off

How to then convey neutral text messages?

Can we separate neutral and relaxed?

  • even breathing
  • twitch ears slowly
  • shrugging (corners go up or come together)
  • slightly cool?

RELAXED (POSITIVE VALENCE, LOW AROUSAL)

  • untensed/expanded
  • slow breathing
  • warm

DEPRESSED / COLD/ICY

  •  cold

 

OUR BIG FOUR

Vibrate (small and large)

Temperature

Breathing

Ears

Maybe add color and noise later… as a way of helping it along, help people tell them apart …can be a kind of visual illusion

 

PROTOTYPES

Ears (mechanized or puppet)

Breathing (mechanized)

Vibrate and temperature (mechanized)

 

DIMENSIONS

For now, aim for one inch wider and one inch longer than iPhone dimensions

All the prototypes are currently 13cm x 7cm

SHOPPING LIST

  • peltier plate or two
  • heat sink
  • small buzzers
  • smaller servos
  • small unenclosed vibrator

Meeting Notes – February 27, 2012

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Discussion with Oliver (Jessica)

– Oliver looked at the phone expressing the phone’s emotion. Found that people can interpret phone’s emotion. Makes sense to look at how we can get people to interpret the emotions as someone else’s emotions (via the phone)… could just be a context thing, like making the phone ring.

– Were able to get some negative emotions (scared, creepy, etc)

– positive valence and high arousal would probably be easier to communicate (people like to interpret things as happy… Jessica and Oliver’s opinion) …Oliver found that the really animated one were negative

 

Heikkinen 2009

– if people receive a emotional message they want to be able to reciprocate

– section 4.2.2 is most important/relevant

– communicating emotion just using touch

– concerned about privacy …we may still be concerned with privacy (but maybe for different reasons)

 

Other paper Jessica read

– emotional expressivity

– interpreting people’s body movements as a way to express emotion

– talk about how to characterize things

– sent crazy color pictures to people

 

Ways to pick emotions

– pick emotions that give us good coverage of the chart

– pick emotions commonly expressed in emails/texts

– pick emotions that would be easiest to express with a phone

– Looking at the four corners of the emotion quadrant for now… keep things really far apart for now… see where there might be blending, or where differentiation is needed, then adjust what emotions we’re focusing on.

– intimate messages (love, etc) might be important to explore… fall under ‘pleased’