The EVA Lowdown

The EVA Lowdown

Getting Personal: Optimising the TV Viewing Experience

Tracking the real time emotional heartbeat of proposed personalisation features.

Feb 3, 2026

Getting personal 

Entertainment is emotional. Personal viewing choices are defined by emotion. Kindling EVA partnered with a global media and telecommunications giant to understand consumers emotions around personalisation and to test emotional response to potential new personalisation features.  

Emotional nuance 

EVA team tracked and analysed 53 emotional states as respondents interacted with the UI in real time, delivering page by page and feature by feature break downs of the emotional response. 

Ideal emotions 

But wait, there’s more. The EVA team were able to deconstruct the emotional DNA of consumer’s feelings towards personalisation, and compare and contrast this with the real-time response. In so doing, the EVA team were able to compare the feature by feature response to the ideal emotional response to personalisation as desired by consumers.  

The UX emotional toolkit 

  • Moment to moment emotional response mapping by feature 

  • Emotional DNA  

  • Differences by audience 

  • Emotional highs and lows 

  • Respondent reviews 

  • Actionable Insights 

Designing the dream experience 

EVA enabled the development team to understand the emotions that underpin the personalisation experience – to go beyond what works functionally and identify how the experience actually made people feel. The data revealed a clear path to optimization, distinguishing between the moments that frustrate and the features that delight. 

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Emotional DNA

Most Nostalgic Concept

Most Exciting Concept

Least Annoying Concept

38% above baseline

Surprise KPI

78%

Rosie, Video Response
Rosie's Review
"I loved the ad. I thought it was really sweet. It reminded me of home."

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Emotion Zones by Ad

Emissions by Scope

Tracking Rosie's Emotional Response

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Emotion Tracking

Insights

Segments

Journeys

Performance

45% above baseline

Nostalgia KPI

75%

Decode the emotional DNA of your next great idea.

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Emotional DNA

Most Nostalgic Concept

Most Exciting Concept

Least Annoying Concept

38% above baseline

Surprise KPI

78%

Rosie, Video Response
Rosie's Review
"I loved the ad. I thought it was really sweet. It reminded me of home."

75%

50%

25%

0%

Ad 1

Ad 2

Ad 3

Ad 4

Ad 5

Emotion Zones by Ad

Emissions by Scope

Tracking Rosie's Emotional Response

0:00

0:10

0:20

0:30

0:40

0:50

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%

Emotion Tracking

Insights

Segments

Journeys

Performance

45% above baseline

Nostalgia KPI

75%

Decode the emotional DNA of your next great idea.

No card needed

Sign-up in 2 mins

Emotional DNA

Most Nostalgic Concept

Most Exciting Concept

Least Annoying Concept

38% above baseline

Surprise KPI

78%

Rosie, Video Response
Rosie's Review
"I loved the ad. I thought it was really sweet. It reminded me of home."

75%

50%

25%

0%

Ad 1

Ad 2

Ad 3

Ad 4

Ad 5

Emotion Zones by Ad

Emissions by Scope

Tracking Rosie's Emotional Response

0:00

0:10

0:20

0:30

0:40

0:50

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%

Emotion Tracking

Insights

Segments

Journeys

Performance

45% above baseline

Nostalgia KPI

75%