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Abstract

The HiMotion research project was designed to create a multimodal database and several support tools for the study of human behavior, cognition and emotion, in the context of computer-based tasks designed to elicit cognitive load and specialized affective responses. The database includes both human-computer interaction (HCI) and psychophysiological data, collected through an experimental setup that we devised for synchronized recording of keyboard, mouse, and central/ peripheral nervous system measurements. Currently we provide a battery of five different cognitive tasks, and a video bank for affective elicitation, together with a set of introductory and self-reporting screens. We have conducted two experiments, one involving a population of 27 subjects, which followed the cognitive tasks protocol, and another involving a population of 20 subjects, which followed the video bank visualization protocol. We provide an overview of several studies that have used the HiMotion database to test multiple hypothesis in the behavioral and affective domains, highlighting the usefulness of our contribution.

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Acknowledgements

In the context of the HiMotion project there were several entities and people that helped or provided their support to the development of the project. First of all we express the gratitude to INSTICC in the person of Prof. Joaquim Filipe, by the support to the project by providing funding resources for scholarships and electrophysiology equipment. Part of the data acquisition was performed in the facilities of the Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, where part of the subjects that voluntary participated in the projected were recruited. The research was preformed in the Pattern and Image Analysis group of Instituto de Telecomunicações, to which we would also like to thank. Besides the researchers, the HiMotion project had collaboration in diverse extents of Ricardo Gamboa, David Cordeiro, João Almeida, and Filipe Canento; we address a special thanks for their involvement and collaboration to the project. We would also like to thank to the psychologist, Dr. Hans Welling from Student Counseling Center at Instituto Superior Técnico and Dr. Teresa Paiva from the University of Lisbon Medical School which, kindly gave advise in preliminary stages of the design of the experiments. This work was also partially funded by the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF-QREN) programme under contract no. 3475 “Affective Mouse”, by PLUX—Wireless Biosignals, S.A., and by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under the grant SFRH/BD/65248/2009, whose support the authors gratefully acknowledge.

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    Hugo Silva & Ana Fred

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Gamboa, H., Silva, H. & Fred, A. HiMotion: a new research resource for the study of behavior, cognition, and emotion. Multimed Tools Appl 73, 345–375 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1602-x

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