EZCalm: A User Emotion Regulation System by Immersive Music Based on Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

Nowadays, many companies hire professional trainers to keep their employees emotionally positive. In addition, more and more people are visiting psychological doctors to adjust their emotion, in order to treat mental illness or gain sense of happiness. All kinds of people mentioned above want to adjust emotions in an effective way. Therefore, a simple and effective household pattern of emotion adjustment is particularly important for people to use in common days. For such a pattern, an emotion regulation pattern combined with Plutchik's wheel of emotions is proposed for emotion adjustment. In order to enhance the effectiveness of emotion adjustment from both the vision channel and the hearing channel, we adjust the user's emotion by visualizing music on a Helmet mounted display (HMD) device. Findings demonstrate that the proposed system can calm down participants' emotions effectively.