“The intention of the mirror is to evoke positive emotions, to make people laugh and to increase the laughter.”
“After a session with the mirror, which generally takes a couple of minutes, the users receives a score card with their laughter statistics and a verbal description, accompanied with their picture.”
“The Affective Mirror tracks user’s emotional states, determines the desirability of this state, and supports the occurrence of desirable emotions. In this way, an affective human-machine interaction was realized, comprising reciprocal human-machine perceive-act cycles via intuitive, visual and auditory, dialogues. As mentioned in the introduction, we do not know other applications that encompass this complete cycle in the real world.“
The full paper can be viewed here : ‘Affective multimodal mirror: sensing and eliciting laughter’