On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation
Research from psychology has suggested that body movement may directly activate emotional experiences. Movement-based emotion regulation is the most readily available but often un-derutilized strategy for emotion regulation. This research aims to investigate the emotional ef-fects of movement-based...
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| author | Jiang, Mengqi Nanjappan, Vijayakumar ten Bhömer, Martijn Liang, Hai-Ning |
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| description | Research from psychology has suggested that body movement may directly activate emotional experiences. Movement-based emotion regulation is the most readily available but often un-derutilized strategy for emotion regulation. This research aims to investigate the emotional ef-fects of movement-based interaction and its sensory feedback mechanisms. To this end, we de-veloped a smart clothing prototype, E-motionWear, which reacts to four movements (elbow flexion/extension, shoulder flexion/extension, open and closed arms, neck flexion/extension), fabric-based detection sensors, and three-movement feedback mechanisms (audio, visual and vibrotactile). An experiment was conducted using a combined qualitative and quantitative ap-proach to collect participants’ objective and subjective emotional feelings. Results indicate that there was no interaction effect between movement and feedback mechanism on the final emo-tional results. Participants preferred vibrotactile and audio feedback rather than visual feedback when performing these four kinds of upper body movements. Shoulder flexion/extension and open-closed arm movements were more effective for improving positive emotion than elbow flexion/extension movements. Participants thought that the E-motionWear prototype were comfortable to wear and brought them new emotional experiences. From these results, a set of guidelines were derived that can help frame the design and use of smart clothing to support us-ers’ emotional regulation. |
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| spelling | nottingham-647192021-03-10T06:09:53Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64719/ On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation Jiang, Mengqi Nanjappan, Vijayakumar ten Bhömer, Martijn Liang, Hai-Ning Research from psychology has suggested that body movement may directly activate emotional experiences. Movement-based emotion regulation is the most readily available but often un-derutilized strategy for emotion regulation. This research aims to investigate the emotional ef-fects of movement-based interaction and its sensory feedback mechanisms. To this end, we de-veloped a smart clothing prototype, E-motionWear, which reacts to four movements (elbow flexion/extension, shoulder flexion/extension, open and closed arms, neck flexion/extension), fabric-based detection sensors, and three-movement feedback mechanisms (audio, visual and vibrotactile). An experiment was conducted using a combined qualitative and quantitative ap-proach to collect participants’ objective and subjective emotional feelings. Results indicate that there was no interaction effect between movement and feedback mechanism on the final emo-tional results. Participants preferred vibrotactile and audio feedback rather than visual feedback when performing these four kinds of upper body movements. Shoulder flexion/extension and open-closed arm movements were more effective for improving positive emotion than elbow flexion/extension movements. Participants thought that the E-motionWear prototype were comfortable to wear and brought them new emotional experiences. From these results, a set of guidelines were derived that can help frame the design and use of smart clothing to support us-ers’ emotional regulation. MDPI AG 2021-02-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64719/1/On%20the%20use%20of%20movement-based%20interaction%20with%20smart%20textiles%20for%20emotion%20regulation.pdf Jiang, Mengqi, Nanjappan, Vijayakumar, ten Bhömer, Martijn and Liang, Hai-Ning (2021) On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation. Sensors, 21 (3). p. 990. ISSN 1424-8220 movement-based interaction; emotion regulation; feedback mechanism; smart textiles; interac-tive textiles http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21030990 doi:10.3390/s21030990 doi:10.3390/s21030990 |
| spellingShingle | movement-based interaction; emotion regulation; feedback mechanism; smart textiles; interac-tive textiles Jiang, Mengqi Nanjappan, Vijayakumar ten Bhömer, Martijn Liang, Hai-Ning On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title | On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title_full | On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title_fullStr | On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title_short | On the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| title_sort | on the use of movement-based interaction with smart textiles for emotion regulation |
| topic | movement-based interaction; emotion regulation; feedback mechanism; smart textiles; interac-tive textiles |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64719/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64719/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64719/ |