TY - GEN
T1 - fNIRS as a method to capture the emotional user experience
T2 - 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2016
AU - Pollmann, Kathrin
AU - Vukelić, Mathias
AU - Birbaumer, Niels
AU - Peissner, Matthias
AU - Bauer, Wilhelm
AU - Kim, Sunjung
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - User experience (UX) has become a key factor in interface design. Still, so far, no satisfying solution exists for measuring the emotional user experience (UX) during human-technology interaction (HTI) and linking them to design elements of the interface. Non-invasive brain imaging techniques are promising tools to assess the underlying causes and generation of emotional experiences in the brain. Against this background, especially functional nearinfrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a rather new and portable method, appears to have strong potential for measuring UX in real-world HTI settings. However, so far fNIRS has scarcely been used in emotion research. The present research evaluates the feasibility of using fNIRS to detect emotional user responses during HTI by comparing it to the well-established method of fMRI which, due to its set-up, is difficult to use in HTI context. Our feasibility study shows that fNIRS can detect brain activity patterns which are similar to those obtained using fMRI and can be used to distinguished positive and negative emotional reaction in an HTI context and displays brain activities which cannot be examined when fMRI is used. Future research should investigate whether similar results can be found when fNIRS is used in less controlled and more realistic HTI scenarios.
AB - User experience (UX) has become a key factor in interface design. Still, so far, no satisfying solution exists for measuring the emotional user experience (UX) during human-technology interaction (HTI) and linking them to design elements of the interface. Non-invasive brain imaging techniques are promising tools to assess the underlying causes and generation of emotional experiences in the brain. Against this background, especially functional nearinfrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a rather new and portable method, appears to have strong potential for measuring UX in real-world HTI settings. However, so far fNIRS has scarcely been used in emotion research. The present research evaluates the feasibility of using fNIRS to detect emotional user responses during HTI by comparing it to the well-established method of fMRI which, due to its set-up, is difficult to use in HTI context. Our feasibility study shows that fNIRS can detect brain activity patterns which are similar to those obtained using fMRI and can be used to distinguished positive and negative emotional reaction in an HTI context and displays brain activities which cannot be examined when fMRI is used. Future research should investigate whether similar results can be found when fNIRS is used in less controlled and more realistic HTI scenarios.
KW - Emotion research
KW - fNIRS
KW - Human-technology interaction
KW - Non-invasive brain-imaging
KW - User experience
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-39513-5_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-39513-5_4
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978863264
SN - 9783319395128
VL - 9733
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 37
EP - 47
BT - Human-Computer Interaction: Novel User Experiences - 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016, Proceedings, Part III
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 17 July 2016 through 22 July 2016
ER -