Frisson Waves: Exploring Automatic Detection, Triggering and Sharing of Aesthetic Chills in Music Performances

Frisson is the feeling and experience of physical reactions such as shivers, tingling skin, and goosebumps. Using entrainment
through facilitating interpersonal transmissions of embodied sensations, we present "Frisson Waves" with the aim to enhance
live music performance experiences. "Frisson Waves" is an exploratory real-time system to detect, trigger and share frisson
in a wave-like pattern over audience members during music performances. The system consists of a physiological sensing
wristband for detecting frisson and a thermo-haptic neckband for inducing frisson. In a controlled environment, we evaluate
detection (n=19) and triggering of frisson (n=15). Based on our findings, we conducted an in-the-wild music concert with
48 audience members using our system to share frisson. This paper summarizes a framework for accessing, triggering and
sharing frisson. We report our research insights, lessons learned, and limitations of "Frisson Waves".

Yan He, George Chernyshov, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, Ragnar Thomsen, Danny Hynds, Muyu Liu, Yuehui Yang, Yulan
Ju, Yun Suen Pai, Kouta Minamizawa, Kai Kunze, and Jamie A Ward