Evaluating the Interaction Between Human Walking and Two-Dimensional Emotion Variation by Using Physiological Signals

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to assess the interaction between walking and emotion variation. Two-dimension walking condition map and the two-dimension emotion map were used to understand their relation. According to the tendency of the changing walking gait in response to the emotion variation, we found that two factors can be influenced by each other. Therefore, by using this relation, we proposed an evaluation method for the user obtaining a better rehabilitation effect while using the assistive device. We recommended that the patient should walk comfortably through following the personal walking limitation, they thus can freely two-way control the emotion and walking while using an assistive device. To conclude, our proposed evaluation method can be employed for various assistive devices.