Towards a mood-dashboard in business meetings

This paper explores the possibilities of a mood-dashboard for use in meetings. The research question defined is: How can a mood-dashboard for the purpose of recognising affective states in business meetings be defined and realised? A literature study has been done to answer this research question. First, the requirements on the mood dashboard have been set up. The result is that the mood-dashboard should have the following nine meters: disagree/agree, angry/content, confusion, bored/interested, certainty, dominance, sad/exaltated, surprise and worry/relaxed. Activation, valence and control are other aspects that could be added to the dashboard. Secondly, this paper looks into the realization of such a dashboard. The several aspects that should be measured in order to realise the dashboard are: visual signals (facial expressions and body gestures), vocal signals and physiological signals. However, it is concluded that researchers have a long way to go before the proposed mood-dashboard with its possible applications can be realised.