Title :
Magic mirror table for social-emotion alleviation in the smart home
Author :
Yu, Yuan-Chih ; You, Shingchern D. ; Tsai, Dwen-Ren
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng. Dept., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
fDate :
2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a prototype of smart furniture for the smart home-a magic mirror table. The proposed system has a camera to capture the viewer´s facial expression. By analyzing the expressions, the system is able to determine the emotion of the viewer. If the viewer is in a negative emotion, the system then speaks positive sentences and plays the viewer´s favorite music to alleviate his/her emotion. The experimental results confirm that the system is able to relieve the sad mood of the viewer. In addition, the proposed system can serve as a calendar for event reminding.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; face recognition; home automation; psychology; social sciences computing; event reminding; facial expression; magic mirror table; smart furniture; smart home; social-emotion alleviation; viewer emotion analysis; Calendars; Emotion recognition; Face; Face recognition; Heart rate; Mirrors; Monitoring;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCE.2012.6170064
