情報処理学会 インタラクション2025

Emotion plays a fundamental yet challenging role in social communication. We envision a world where individuals can effortlessly and elegantly express their emotions, encouraging them to share their feelings and enhancing social interactions. The objective is to utilize language to convey the intended nuances that are not readily apparent. With the advent of artificial intelligence, numerous research endeavors have been undertaken to elucidate emotional traits from facial expressions, verbal communication, and natural language, thereby facilitating the acquisition of emotional intelligence. However, the expressive method of emotion remains largely unexamined. Recent work has culminated in the presentation of measured information in words, color, or emojis, which is straightforward.We are focusing on creating an alternative way of emotional expression, inspired byfluid dynamics. We propose that emotion is expressed in the metaphor of fluid.Emotional attributes, valence, and arousal are converted to viscosity and divergence of emotion.Throughout visual representation with touch interaction, users can represent their emotion in a more abstract and artistic way. This works suggests that de-verbalized and abstract emotional expressions can become a channel for emotional exchange that has not previously existed.