The objective of the Emocions project is the design and development of an emotional educational tool capable of identifying users’ spontaneous facial expressions in real-time, inferring their emotional state, and interacting with them accordingly. To this end, content will be created to generate personalized scripts, adapting to the users’ emotional states. Techniques for recognizing basic emotions, complex emotions (such as interest or boredom), and detecting Action Units (FACS system) will be studied, based on combinations of geometric and appearance features.
The development of the emotional educational tool will begin with the specification of tests designed by experts based on the studies of Ekman and Baron-Cohen. Necessary content (scripts, questionnaires, etc.) will be created to allow for a natural user-machine dialogue, compiling two versions: PC and Wii with a cross-platform editor.
Fields such as HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), home automation, AAL (Ambient-Assisted Living), and sciences related to emotional and cognitive studies (Psychology, Psychiatry) may benefit from the advances made in this project.
