Current lighting methods rely on static manual techniques, which require designers to anticipate and account for all possible situations and actor actions. The establishment of mood and drama through lighting is the sum of the properties of the lights themselves as their motivation, purpose, placement, direction, range, colour, quality, quantity and intensity. In a range of scenarios, the lighting designers, directors of photography and visual artists need to take advantage of these emotional reactions evoked by lighting to achieve the desired visual goals.
We intend to apply Affective Computing methods to create an intelligent lighting control system using state-of-the-art technology that automatically sets and adjusts scene lighting in real-time to achieve desired aesthetic and communicative goals. As such, the device would be applicable for use in animation, theatre, film and stage projects. This research explores how ‘Performing Arts’ wed to ‘Affective Computing’ approaches to interactive lighting will lead to a new computational model of emotion.
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