eMoto

eMoto is a mobile service for sending affective messages to others. The mobile phone user inputs what they want to express emotionally through a range of affective gestures. This alters the background of the text message (SMS) to include a range of affective expressions that make use of colors, shapes and animations . The interaction with gestures and changes of the text message background interactively pulls the user into an embodied ‘affective loop’. The design builds on a Laban-analysis of shape and effort.

http://emoto.sics.se

Sundström, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (forthcoming, 2007) In Situ Informants Exploring an emotional Mobile Meassaging System in Their Everyday Practice, In a special issue of IJHCS on Evaluating Affective Interfaces.
Sundström, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (2006) A Wild Evaluation of Users' Emotional Engagement, Contribution to the WP9 Workshop on Innovative Approaches for Evaluating Affective Systems, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ståhl, Anna (2005) Designing for Emotional Expressivity. Licentiate thesis, Umeå University.
Ståhl, A., Sundström, P., & Höök, K. (2005) A Foundation for Emotional Expressivity, DUX 2005, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sundström, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (2005) A User-Centred Approach to Affective Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
Sundström, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (2005) eMoto - Affectively Involving both Body and Mind, In Extended abstract CHI'05, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Sundström, P. (2005) Exploring the Affective Loop, Licenciate Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Fagerberg, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (2004) eMoto - Emotionally Engaging Interaction, In Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Tangible Interfaces in Perspective, Springer.
Fagerberg, P., Ståhl, A., & Höök, K. (2003) Designing gestures for affective input: an analysis of shape, effort and valence, In Proceedings of MUM 2003, Norrköping, Sweden.

To run this system you need specialized hardware (the extended stylus for the mobile phone), a P900-telephone, access to GPRS etc. Contact Petra Sundström for more information: petra@dsv.su.se