Emotion-Aware Smart Home Automation Based on the eBICA Model
Abstract
Smart home automation that adapts to a user's emotional state can enhance psychological safety in daily living environments. This study proposes an emotion-aware automation framework guided by the emotional Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (eBICA), which integrates appraisal, somatic responses, and behavior selection. We conducted a proof-of-concept experiment in a pseudo-smart-home environment, where participants were exposed to an anxiety-inducing event followed by a comfort-inducing automation. State anxiety (STAI-S) was measured throughout the task sequence. The results showed a significant reduction in STAI-S immediately after introducing the avoidance automation, demonstrating that emotion-based control can effectively promote psychological safety. Furthermore, an analysis of individual characteristics suggested that personality and anxiety-related traits modulate the degree of relief, indicating the potential for personalized emotion-adaptive automation. Overall, this study provides empirical evidence that eBICA-based emotional control can function effectively in smart home environments and offers a foundation for next-generation affective home automation systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.21589,
title = {Emotion-Aware Smart Home Automation Based on the eBICA Model},
author = {Masaaki Yamauchi and Yiyuan Liang and Hiroko Hara and Hideyuki Shimonishi and Masayuki Murata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21589},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted at IEEE ICCE 2026