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Emotions as a System Regulator for Sustainability: Designing a Tangible Device Capable to Enable Connections

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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The research refers to two different initial topics of interest. On the one hand the large-scale diffusion of tracking devices and the growing interest to-wards the movement for the personal quantification, led us to the hypothesis that devices could autonomously analyze not only physical field related data, but also those related to emotions. On the other hand, the development of an intangible and interface-free system that aims to shape the environment around us according to our needs, hypothetically doesn’t require our direct intervention. A so called zero user interface system. In this scenario, the presence of data related to our emotional state, generally referred as mood, could be useful to regulate a system otherwise based on a single automated collection of exogenous values. In this paper we will focus on both on how this theoretical system will work and impact on the sustainability, and how to collect this data in a ideal way.

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  1. DAD Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Flavio Montagner, Paolo Tamborrini & Andrea Di Salvo

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  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

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  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

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Montagner, F., Tamborrini, P., Di Salvo, A. (2019). Emotions as a System Regulator for Sustainability: Designing a Tangible Device Capable to Enable Connections. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_217

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