Emotion Mouse

1. What is an emotion mouse?

The mouse developed in order to evaluate the user's emotion such as anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, etc when we use a computer.

2. Objectives:

Measure the physical and physiological data without user's perception or obstruction as much as possible
Data acquisition system to get the analog data from several sensors.

3. What kinds of information can we get from emotion mouse?

Behavior

Mouse movements
Button click frequency
Finger pressure when a user presses his/her button

Physiological information

Heart rate ( Electrocardiogram(ECG/EKG), Photoplethysmogram(PPG) )
Skin temperature (Thermester)
Skin electricity (Galvanic skin response, GSR)
Electromyographic activity (Electromyogram, MG)

4. Working

By simply touching the mouse, computer will be able to determine the person's emotional state.

Heart rate is taken by the IR on the thumb, temperature is taken using the thermosistor chip, GSA is taken using the mouse device driver, and GSR is taken through the fingertips. These values are input into a series of discriminate function analysis and correlated to an emotional state. Specifically for the mouse, the discriminate functionanalysis is used in accordance with the baseline relationship, i.e. the relationship between each set of caliberation physiological signals and the associated emotion.