SMS Text Based Affective Haptic Application
Key: MHAE11-1
Author: Kazi Masudul Alam, Sandro Hardy, Aysha Akther, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Date: April 2011
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: Proceedings of Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC 2011)
Keywords: Emotion, Haptic, Lexical Analysis, SMS, Vibrotactile effect
Abstract: In this article, we propose a new mobile application which automatically detects secondary level emotions from SMS text by applying lexical rules based analysis and maps emotions to unique vibrotactile haptic actions. In our prototype application, a SMS receiver can feel affective haptic effect through her mobile phone or wearable haptic jacket before reading any SMS. We envision such application as a preview of SMS content’s emotion which will guide the receiver to select a message for reading or discarding at various contexts. In this article, we have presented our emotion analysis method, application architecture, some performance analysis and users perception towards such application.
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