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Automatic recognition of affective state from wearable physiology has clear societal impact for public health, preventive care, and stress-aware interventions, but real deployments require robustness to non-stationary dynamics, artefacts,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Lokesh Singh , Athina Georgara , Jayati Deshmukh , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

Emotional states, as indicators of affect, are pivotal to overall health, making their accurate prediction before onset crucial. Current studies are primarily centered on immediate short-term affect detection using data from wearable and…

Recognizing human affect and emotions is a problem that has a wide range of applications within both academia and industry. Affect and emotion recognition within computer vision primarily relies on images of faces. With the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Elmar Langholz

As technologies become more and more pervasive, there is a need for considering the affective dimension of interaction with computer systems to make them more human-like. Current demands for this matter include accurate emotion recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Barbara Giżycka , Grzegorz J. Nalepa , Paweł Jemioło

With the development of the artificial intelligence (AI), the AI applications have influenced and changed people's daily life greatly. Here, a wearable affective robot that integrates the affective robot, social robot, brain wearable, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Min Chen , Jun Zhou , Guangming Tao , Jun Yang , Long Hu

Machine learning is frequently used in affective computing, but presents challenges due the opacity of state-of-the-art machine learning methods. Because of the impact affective machine learning systems may have on an individual's life, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David S. Johnson , Olya Hakobyan , Hanna Drimalla

Continuous collection of physiological data from wearable sensors enables temporal characterization of individual behaviors. Understanding the relation between an individual's behavioral patterns and psychological states can help identify…

Advances in commercial wearable devices are increasingly facilitating the collection and analysis of everyday physiological data. This paper discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of using such ambulatory devices for the detection…

Applications · Statistics 2019-10-15 Amit Birenboim , Martin Dijst , Floortje Scheepers , Maartje Poelman , Marco Helbich

Affective Recommender Systems are an emerging class of intelligent systems that aim to enhance personalization by aligning recommendations with users' affective states. Reflecting a growing interest, a number of surveys have been published…

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Health and fitness wearable technology has recently advanced, making it easier for an individual to monitor their behaviours. Previously self generated data interacts with the user to motivate positive behaviour change, but issues arise…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Katrin Hänsel , Natalie Wilde , Hamed Haddadi , Akram Alomainy

Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decision-making, personalize experiences, and improve emotional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Helen Schneider , Svetlana Pavlitska , Helen Gremmelmaier , J. Marius Zöllner

In our multicultural world, affect-aware AI systems that support humans need the ability to perceive affect across variations in emotion expression patterns across cultures. These systems must perform well in cultural contexts without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Leena Mathur , Ralph Adolphs , Maja J Matarić

Timely stress detection is crucial for protecting vulnerable groups from long-term detrimental effects by enabling early intervention. Wearable devices, by collecting real-time physiological signals, offer a solution for accurate stress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Gelei Xu , Ruiyang Qin , Zhi Zheng , Yiyu Shi

Emotions and other affective states play a pivotal role in cognition and, consequently, the learning process. It is well-established that computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) that can detect and adapt to students' affective states…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Felipe de Morais , Diógines Goldoni , Tiago Kautzmann , Rodrigo da Silva , Patricia A. Jaques

Affect (emotion) recognition has gained significant attention from researchers in the past decade. Emotion-aware computer systems and devices have many applications ranging from interactive robots, intelligent online tutor to emotion based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Amol Patwardhan , Gerald Knapp

Wearable devices record physiological and behavioral signals that can improve health predictions. While foundation models are increasingly used for such predictions, they have been primarily applied to low-level sensor data, despite…

Affective computing is an emerging interdisciplinary field where computational systems are developed to analyze, recognize, and influence the affective states of a human. It can generally be divided into two subproblems: affective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Guangtao Nie , Yibing Zhan

Affect recognition based on subjects' facial expressions has been a topic of major research in the attempt to generate machines that can understand the way subjects feel, act and react. In the past, due to the unavailability of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The affective attitude of liking a recommended item reflects just one category in a wide spectrum of affective phenomena that also includes emotions such as entranced or intrigued, moods such as cheerful or buoyant, as well as more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Tonmoy Hasan , Razvan Bunescu

Negative emotions are linked to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia, yet they are often difficult to detect through observation. Physiological signals from wearable devices offer a promising noninvasive method for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Muhammad Irfan , Anum Nawaz , Ayse Kosal Bulbul , Riku Klen , Abdulhamit Subasi , Tomi Westerlund , Wei Chen