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Affective computing Rosalind W. Picard
Publisher: The MIT Press

Korean startup Acriil is developing new platforms using "affective computing", which is how computers respond to human emotions. Our paper titled “Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms” was accepted to the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference. A growing number of affective computing researches recently developed a computer system that can recognize an emotional state of the human user to establish affective human-computer interactions. €�Affective computing” is how computers recognize and respond to human emotion. It's rare that a book about technology is still relevant, never mind ahead of the curve, 12 years after publication. The company is one of several on a quest to use tech to understand our emotions—a field called affective computing. Affective Computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion and other affective phenomena. Excerpt from Scholarpedia's article about Affective Computing. Scientists at the MIT Media Lab are studying how computing influences emotions or other affective phenomena. I'm halfway through Rosalind Picard's Affective Computing, and I'm glad I picked it up. Affective computing detects human actions, such as gesturesor emotions, and responds appropriately to them. It is called Affective Computing Science and it will be a bit more technical and also contain links and or comments in that special field. The rise of emotionally-aware or 'affective' computing is set to change the way machines understand and interact with people. And computers are about to understand this better than some people. For instance, the startup Affectiva analyzes facial expressions to discover how people feel about ads. The interface between affect and cognition should be studied well in order to build digital affective computing systems. I decided to start a second blog that focuses on Affective Computing. 'Affect' refers to the way we sense and display emotions.