The Impact of Digital Alarm Sound to Human Emotions: A Case Study

Wenhan Han, Jiaqi Wang, Xiping Hu, Hanshu Cai, Jun Cheng, Zhaolong Ning

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Abstract

In many people's daily life, alarm sounds play an important role, which reflects the fast paced life in the modern society. On most occasions, people uses alarm sounds to wake them up in the morning. Improper alarm sounds could make people feel terrible. In this paper, we mainly propose a smart alarm sound recommendation system and construct an application to study how alarm sounds can impact human emotions. The recommendation system is deployed on the cloud, working with smartphones to deliver smart alarm sounds by considering not only sleep patterns, but also context information such as weather. The designed system can recommend smart alarm sounds to users, orchestrate sensing data collected by multiple sensors on smartphones, and collaborate with cloud computing to recommend preferable alarm sounds. An application is developed to demonstrate system effectiveness, which consists of the fore-end on Android OS and the back-end on the cloud. Experiments demonstrate that our system can recommend smart alarm sounds to wake participants up in the morning and the participants give feedback about their emotional states. The results show the system can improve people's emotion states by about 14.57%, compared to traditional alarm sound delivery.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1903-1908
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538666500
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: 7 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period7/10/1810/10/18

Keywords

  • Context-aware
  • emotion
  • smart alarm sound recommendation

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