NDLI: Growing emotions: Using affect to help children understand a plant's needs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Verdijk, J.W. Oldenhof, D. Krijnen, D. Broekens, J.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Intell. Syst., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands (Broekens, J.) \|\| Leiden Inst. of Adv. Comput. Sci., Leiden Univ., Leiden, Netherlands (Verdijk, J.W.; Oldenhof, D.; Krijnen, D.)
Abstract	This study proposes a homeostasis-based affective system with emotion and mood as a way to communicate a plant's health state and environmental needs to preschool and primary school children. A system is proposed that expresses mood and emotion to express the plant's health state and its affective reaction to user-induced environmental changes respectively. A long-term goal is to enhance empathic reasoning in children and respect for plants and life in general, using affect as a communicative interface (even though the underlying system is not emotive per se). A fundamental issue addressed in this work is to what extend it is useful to add affective communication to a system that is otherwise non-affective (plants in our case) in order to better understand that system's state. A computer simulation of the affective plant was tested (n=7). Our results suggest that children can identify the simulated plant's needs and state based on graphically expressed affect, and can act to enhance the homeostasis of the plant.
Starting Page	160
Ending Page	165
File Size	919683
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISSN	21568111
e-ISBN	9781479999538
DOI	10.1109/ACII.2015.7344566
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-09-21
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Graphics Pediatrics Emotion recognition Plant Mood Education Environment Machine affect expression Face Positron emission tomography Interactive system
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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