On November 11, 2018, the School of Design and Art of Hunan University held the first International Symposium on "Emotion Recognition and Human Factors Design". The conference was organized by Professor Marcelo Soares. Professor Tareq Ahram from the University of Central Florida's School of Engineering and Computer Science and Francisco Ergonomic Virtual Reality Lab, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Prof. Rebelo, Professor Silvia Laurentio, Director of the Applied Neurological Laboratory of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and Professor Marcio Marcal of the Federal University of Vals, discussed the “user emotion perception and recognition technology for virtual experience”.
Professor He Renke, Dean of the School of Design and Art of Hunan University, gave a welcome speech to the seminar.
Professor Marcelo Soares introduces the guests and themes of the seminar 
Professor Silvia Laurentio and Professor Tareq Ahram participate in the network
Professor Silvia Laurentio's speech is “Emotional Behavior and Electrophysiology in Human Design”. She first introduced the related concepts of neuroscience and physiological psychology, including the meaning of physiological signals such as EEG, ECG, GSR, BVP, measuring equipment and processes, and emotion-related features, and also mentioned multi-modal-multichannel physiological signals. The psychological experimental design method shared the research cases of “Nerve Physiology Research for Marketing Advertising” and “Human Error Assessment in Simulated Refining System”. The professor affirmed the role of electrophysiological emotion-behavior system in human factors engineering design, and summarized and prospected related research and technology.
Professor Tareq Ahram's speech is “Designing User Experience for Products and Services in the Context of Neuroscience”. He combs the design thinking process from the perspective of systems engineering and introduces the physiological-emotional mechanism and psychology experimental paradigm in the field of neuroscience. Emphasis is placed on emotion-related experimental design, signal processing, feature fusion strategies, and pattern recognition techniques.
Professor Marcio Marcal makes a keynote speech
Professor Marcio Marcal shared a report entitled “Infrared Thermography and Emotional Research in Human Factors Engineering”. First, it introduced the concept, principle and development history of thermal imaging technology, focusing on the steps and methods of emotional perception through this technology. And the mapping relationship between thermal imaging and emotion, the establishment conditions of thermal infrared emotion database and related equipment, etc. Finally, combined with the application of "infrared thermography technology in the assessment of college students' stress level", the application prospect of thermal imaging technology is introduced.
Professor Francisco Rebelo gave a keynote speech
Professor Francisco Rebelo's speech is "The Behavior and Emotional Response in VR Context". He proposed that the designer's job is to create value in the community through excellent user experience design, making people's lives healthier and safer. Comfortable, independent and fun; environmental factors influence user-centered design and influence people's behavior. His areas of focus are security logo design, affordability design, user experience design, interaction design and emotional design, and in the context of VR, the emotional behavioral responses of these designers are studied by combining eye tracking and electrophysiological techniques. , thus feedback and design innovation process.
Seminar site
Conference site Q&A session
In the Q&A session after the speech, teachers and classmates from both inside and outside the school expressed their opinions and discussed with the professors. The atmosphere of the whole day was active and everyone benefited a lot.
The conference was funded by the Hunan Provincial Key Research and Development Program International and Regional Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Key Research and Development Project “Multi-modal Physiological Signal Emotion Recognition Research for Product Virtual Experience” (2018WK2032). After the meeting, experts from various countries will conduct a three-day seminar on the core technology of the project.
