Recognizing Human Affection: Smartphone Perspective
Touch-screen Smartphone has become an obligatory segment in the lives of billions of people around the world. Understanding the human affection or emotional state of the user enables efficient human computer interaction. Smartphone is one of the most frequently used electronic devices and the number of applications developed for it is increasing day by day. Emotion recognition of the user will lead to the development of emotion aware applications. Service recommendations and intelligent user interfaces in Smartphone will be other encouraging scopes for the mobile application developers. In this paper we discuss about state-of-the-art technologies to detect human emotional states. We proposed a methodology by which three different emotional states (positive, neutral, negative) of the user can be identified using Smartphone’s built-in sensors like the gyroscope, accelerometer and also additional sensors such as pressure sensor. We tried to analyse infraction log of Smartphone users, approximated different sensor values to recognize human emotions. Since the pressure values found on the existing phones are not completely accurate, we introduced the use of Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) sensor to get more accurate pressure values.
