Emotion recognition from electromyography and skin conductance

Abstract — The evocation and detection of the user’s emotional state is becoming a crucial element in the aim for developing more effective interfaces between humans and computers, especially in applications such as games and elearning tools. In this paper, we describe a model that allows us to determine emotion in real time, based on Electromyography (EMG) and skin conductance. The developed emotion recognition component has been used in a joint research project with the University of Bielefeld [1] that intends to address affective gaming by adding real time emotion detection to a game scenario between a human user and a 3D humanoid agent called Max