Showing posts with label theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theory. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2016

First Comparison · Star Wars 2015

Here comes a first result to compare the heart rate of two different people watching the same movie. Both persons have seen the movie in different locations and at different times (Person 1 & 2).

At first I put graph one onto the other - regardless of the absolute heart rate, which resulted in a centered position in y, which is the pulse (Person 1 +2 Overlay). Because of the visual confusing outcome I decided to identify similarities via simple color multiplication (Similarities [Overlapping]).
This is my theory what this result can tell: In those regions which have overlapping color (red + red or green + green) both persons have had the same kind of pulse: either above the trend line (red) or below (green). This means both persons have been emotionally touched in the same manner. So the bars in grey depict those time frames, where both individuals have been responded similar - although they have seen the movie in different locations and at different day time (and of course at different dates).
Person 1 fails keeping attention after 30 minutes - it's me, folks and this is why: I went to the cinema in the afternoon, when I usually have my energy drop.


Thursday, June 18, 2015

When it started

Developing such thing as Movie Pulse came to my mind quite early this year. And just before summer I registered the app and domain. The purpose of the app has always been very clear, straight forward: watch a movie, record your heart rate, store the movie along with a descriptive visualization of what happened to you in terms of positive stress.

And of course this came to mind of other scientists - one example is this work analyzing 50 male students watching "The Silence of the Lambs" see page 35 ff., Induction of emotional arousal in laboratory experiments by Michael Myrtek in "Heart and Emotion: Ambulatory Monitoring Studies in Everyday Life".

But this would be different: a small everyday device will be the companion and do the work.