“Interpersonal Emotions: Exploring Humans Behavioral Patterns” presented by Zheng and Chen
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This short paper presents the interactive installation ‘Interpersonal Emotions’ (2023-2024) exploring aspects of people’s behavior, driven or influenced by sound and light while negotiating ‘who will have a seat’ in a darkened space in which the chairs have spots underneath and emits sounds when approached by the audience. The work explores aspects of interaction design and emotional design and a computer vision system maps the audience movements in space in the search for patterns. The system uses machine learning object detection to navigate the emerging patterns giving the artist the chance to explore the ‘aesthetics behind interaction’ driven by the emotions awakened or triggered by sound and light, guessing what attracts and directs their moves, what their motivations to act — subtleties about our intuitive, cultural and emotional reactions to environment signals and the ways we negotiate space when in public shared environments. In a contemporary hyper-mediated society, people have become increasingly physically isolated, and loneliness and depression, have become social problems worldwide, especially after COVID-19 pandemic. The intention is to explore, in the design of this interactive installation, by simulating the communication and negotiation between people influenced by environmental signals and presence, behavioral patterns that can help to escape loneliness.
