Helmut Faasch

Emotional Human-Machine Interaction

This two-volume set LNCS 6771 and 6772 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 137 revised papers presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of human interface and the management of information. The 75 papers of this first volume address the following major topics: design and development methods and tools; information and user interfaces design; visualisation techniques and applications; security and privacy; touch and gesture interfaces; adaption and personalisation; and measuring and recognising human behavior.

Current and New Research Perspectives on Dynamic Facial Emotion Detection in Emotional Interface

In recent years there has been an increasing interdisciplinary exchange between psychology and computer science in the field of recognizing emotions for future-oriented Human-Computer and Human-Machine Interfaces. Although affective computing research has made enormous progress in automatically recognizing facial expressions, it has not yet been fully clarified how algorithms can learn to encode or decode a human face in a real environment. Consequently, our research focuses on the detection of emotions or affective states in a Human-Machine setting. In contrast to other approaches, we use a psychology driven approach trying to minimize complex computations by using a simple dot-based feature extraction method. We suggest a new approach within, but not limited to, a Human-Machine Interface context which detects emotions by analyzing the dynamic change in facial expressions. In order to compare our approach, we discuss our software with respect to other developed facial expression studies in context of its application in a chat environment. Our approach indicates promising results that the program could accurately detect emotions. Implications for further research as well as for applied issues in many areas of Human-Computer Interaction, particularly for affective and social computing, will be discussed and outlined.

Kommunikation, Partizipation und digitale Medien

Im Prozess der nachhaltigen Entwicklung spielen Kommunikation, Partizipation wie auch (digitale) Medien eine wichtige Rolle. Es werden theoretische Zusammenhange aufgezeigt und methodische Zugange wie auch Umsetzungsmoglichkeiten verdeutlicht. Auserdem enthalt das Kapitel exemplarische Hinweise auf Forschungen sowie Ausfuhrungen zu Projekten, die in der konkreten praktischen Arbeit erfolgreich waren.