An Analysis of Correlations between Empathy and Both EEG and HEG during Text Chat

Masaki Omata, Kana Watanabe

2022

Abstract

We have addressed a problem that emotions associated with texts are not correctly conveyed in text chat. In this study, we conducted two experiments to analyze whether electroencephalography (EEG) and hemoencephalography (HEG) of a receiver can be used to identify the receiver’s empathic state when the receiver is empathizing with the emotion associated with the text sent by a sender. As the results, we found that emotional valence was more likely to be empathized with in text-based chat, but emotional arousal was less likely to be empathized with. We also found that the power of theta waves at O1 (in the occipital region) of the empathic receivers was significantly lower than that of the non-empathic receivers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Omata M. and Watanabe K. (2022). An Analysis of Correlations between Empathy and Both EEG and HEG during Text Chat. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-609-5, pages 105-112. DOI: 10.5220/0011376800003323

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira22,
author={Masaki Omata and Kana Watanabe},
title={An Analysis of Correlations between Empathy and Both EEG and HEG during Text Chat},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2022},
pages={105-112},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011376800003323},
isbn={978-989-758-609-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - An Analysis of Correlations between Empathy and Both EEG and HEG during Text Chat
SN - 978-989-758-609-5
AU - Omata M.
AU - Watanabe K.
PY - 2022
SP - 105
EP - 112
DO - 10.5220/0011376800003323