Incorporating Affective Computing Into an Interactive System With MakeyMakey: An Emotional Human-Computer Interaction Design

People's emotions or behaviors often ensue from positive or negative emotions. Whether set off subconsciously or intentionally, these fragmentary responses also represent people's emotional vacillations at different times, albeit rarely noted or discovered. This paper presents a system that incorporates affective computing into an interactive installation. While a user is performing a task, the system instantaneously and randomly generates corresponding musical-instrument sound effects and special effects. The system is intended to enable users to interact with emotions through the interactive installation to yield a personalized digital artwork while learning how emotions affect the causative factors of consciousness and personal behaviors. At the end of the process, three questionnaires are presented for users to fill in as a means to enhance the integrity and richness of the system and its stability and precision through progressive modifications aligned with user suggestions.