Xingyu Yang

ThermalWear: Exploring Wearable On-chest Thermal Displays to Augment Voice Messages with Affect

Voice is a rich modality for conveying emotions, however emotional prosody production can be situationally or medically impaired. Since thermal displays have been shown to evoke emotions, we explore how thermal stimulation can augment perception of neutrally-spoken voice messages with affect. We designed ThermalWear,…