[2U1-IS-1b] Knowledge engineering

[2U1-IS-1b-01] Dyadic Level Emotional Contagious Scenario through ECG and EDA Sensory Information: A Preliminary Experiment

〇Ahmed Salem¹, Kaoru Sumi¹ (1. Future University Hakodate)

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Keywords:Group Emotion Recognition, Affective Computing, Emotional Contagion, Galvanic Skin Response, ECG

Emotional contagion is the exchange and transfer of emotions to others. Dyadic dynamics in a group setting received little attention, especially when combined with emotional contagion as the contagion of emotions is very low due to the low number of group members (i.e., 2). In this paper, we perform a preliminary experiment by using EDA and ECG sensors to monitor 2 subjects while they are interacting with each other. We choose the subjects to be a married couple in order to ensure strong emotional contagion, thus, interesting insights can be obtained. Subjects answer the Emotional Contagion Scale (ECS) questionnaire, Facial Expressiveness Scale (FES) questionnaire, and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Our results show that the subject with a high score of FES is easily and mostly aroused, thus leading the emotions of the other subject. The emotional contagion phenomenon is clearly shown in the ECG measurements too. ECG of the subject with high FES leads/precedes the other subject, thus changes (in the form of replications) can be seen almost instantly. However, changes take longer when its related to EDA measurements. Emotions transmit from the charismatic personality to the empathetic personality, thus empathetic personality's ECG and EDA sensory information are imitating the charismatic personality's sensory information after a certain delay.