The aim of this master thesis is to automate the assessment of the effects of advertisements on people. Using machine learning, we have trained a model that predicts reactance dimension on MMES scale based on selected psychophysiological signals. This dimension covers negative feelings caused by advertisements. Signals used are time series of pupil size and electrodermal activity.
In the first part of the master thesis, we give the theoretical background of multimedia exposure estimation (questionnaires used to determine them etc.) and psychophysiological signals. We go on to explain the machine learning concepts and algorithms used in this thesis. Special attention is paid to deep learning.
In the research part of the master thesis, we first process the signals, present the signal features, and visualise the data. We visualise the distributions of the psychophysiological signal features and the distributions of the psychophysiological signal features in relation to reactance. In the next part we use the processed signal, the signal features as well as the raw signal to train several machine learning models. The raw signal is only used in deep neural network learning, while the extracted signal features are also used in other machine learning methods. We evaluate the results using F1 scores and areas under the ROC curves. Based on these metrics, we compare the models with each other. We find that the random forest model and the features of both signals, with the pupil diameter signal normalized, can classify the MMES scale dimension reactance better than chance.
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