Nowadays, we witness a tremendous increase in systems that sense various facets of humans and their surrounding environments. In particular, the detection of human emotions can lead to emotionally-aware applications that use this information to help improving people's daily lives and offering new business opportunities. We address the issue of maintaining privacy for this type of applications. In this paper, we propose a general model that focuses on privacy-preserving mechanisms for a Human-in-the-loop emotionally-aware Cyber-Physical System (HiTLCPS). As a proof-of-concept, we also present an emotionally aware application that attempts to positively impact students' lives without compromising their privacy 1 .
['Ionela Halcu', 'David Nunes', 'Valentin Sgarciu', 'Jorge Sa Silva']
New mechanisms for privacy in human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems