Adapting A Device To A User Based On User Emotional State

A computing device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon multiple instructions that implement an emotional state based adaptation system and that, responsive to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform acts comprising:
• detecting, while a user is engaged with the computing device, that an emotional state of the user has changed from a first emotional state to a second emotional state;
• identifying a context of the computing device;
• determining, based on the context of the computing device, a reason for the change from the first emotional state to the second emotional state;
• and
• adapting the computing device to the user by altering operation of the computing device based on the second emotional state and the reason for the change from the first emotional state to the second emotional state.

An emotional state based adaptation system comprising:

• a user emotional state classification module, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to monitor a user emotional state while a user is engaged with a computing device;
• an adaptation control module, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to detect that the user emotional state has changed from a first emotional state to a second emotional state;
• a context detection module, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to identify a context of the computing device;
• a user emotional state reasoning determination module, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to determine a reason for the change from the first emotional state to the second emotional state based on the context of the computing device;
• and
• a device adaptation module, implemented at least in part in hardware, configured to adapt the computing device to the user by altering operation of the computing device based on the second emotional state and the reason for the change from the first emotional state to the second emotional state.