Emotion-Driven Specifications in Interactive Artwork

Although emotions are well-recognized features in affecting human behaviour, little research has been undertaken on the inclusion of emotions in the non-functional requirements of a software system. Recently, interactive art became an exploratory field where artists and software engineers collaborate in the creation of art pieces; thus, through technology and software tools, human body expressions are translated into artistic products. The aim of our project is to understand the process that generates specifications during the viewer’s experience with an interactive art installation where non-functional requirements are described by emotions. Therefore the emotion-driven specifications that we aim to obtain will define the hardware and the software of the interactive art installations to be developed in order to convey the desired emotions to the audience. In order to acquire these results, we create proof-of-concept artworks described by a conceptual modelling language and verify their functionalities.