Improvement of the recognition of facial expressions with haptic feedback

Affective computing is among emerging fields for the design of new Human-Computer Interfaces. The facial expression was considered as the main way to communicate emotions. However, this approach presents some limitations for the recognition of complex emotions. Recent researches highlight new approaches to communicate effectively some emotions. The use of haptic feedback seems to be a promising solution to improve the level of recognition. In fact, haptic feedback, introduces different physical dimensions which complete the visual features of emotions. This paper proposes the study of the complementary between facial expressions and haptic feedback to recognize different class of emotions. Results show that the proposed haptic feedback improves at different levels the recognition of some emotions.