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A key challenge of affective computing research is discovering ways to reliably transfer affect models that are built in the laboratory to real world settings, namely in the wild. The existing gap between in vitro and in vivo affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Konstantinos Makantasis , David Melhart , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

The underlying processes that enable self-perception are crucial for understanding multisensory integration, body perception and action, and the development of the self. Previous computational models have overlooked an essential aspect:…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-30 Jonathan Bauermeister , Pablo Lanillos

Accurate pain assessment is crucial in healthcare for effective diagnosis and treatment; however, traditional methods relying on self-reporting are inadequate for populations unable to communicate their pain. Cutting-edge AI is promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Minh-Duc Nguyen , Hyung-Jeong Yang , Soo-Hyung Kim , Ji-Eun Shin , Seung-Won Kim

Virtual reality has been effectively used for eliciting emotions, yet most research focuses on the intensity of affective responses rather than on how interaction influences those experiences. To address this gap, we advance a validated VR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zheyuan Kuang , Tinghui Li , Weiwei Jiang , Sven Mayer , Flora Salim , Benjamin Tag , Anusha Withana , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva

Emotions have a major interactive role in defining how humans interact with their environment by encoding their perception to external events and accordingly, influencing their cognition and decision-making process. Therefore, increasing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mustaffa Alfatlawi

Some of the most severe bottlenecks preventing widespread development of machine learning models for human behavior include a dearth of labeled training data and difficulty of acquiring high quality labels. Active learning is a paradigm for…

Advertisements (ads) often include strongly emotional content to leave a lasting impression on the viewer. This work (i) compiles an affective ad dataset capable of evoking coherent emotions across users, as determined from the affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Abhinav Shukla , Shruti Shriya Gullapuram , Harish Katti , Karthik Yadati , Mohan Kankanhalli , Ramanathan Subramanian

Collaborating in a group, whether face-to-face or virtually, involves continuously expressing emotions and interpreting those of other group members. Therefore, understanding group affect is essential to comprehending how groups interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Navin Raj Prabhu , Maria Tsfasman , Catharine Oertel , Timo Gerkmann , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

Physiological signals hold immense potential for ubiquitous emotion monitoring, presenting numerous applications in emotion recognition. However, harnessing this potential is hindered by significant challenges, particularly in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-30 Pragya Singh , Ritvik Budhiraja , Pankaj Jalote , Mohan Kumar , Pushpendra Singh

AI assistants that interact with users over time need to interpret the user's current emotional state in order to respond appropriately and personally. However, this capability remains insufficiently evaluated. Existing emotion datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Deliang Wen , Ke Sun , Yu Wang

Automated deception detection systems can enhance health, justice, and security in society by helping humans detect deceivers in high-stakes situations across medical and legal domains, among others. This paper presents a novel analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leena Mathur , Maja J Matarić

The focus of the efforts for defining and modelling emotion is broadly shifting from classical definite marker theory to statistically context situated conceptual theory. However, the role of context processing and its interaction with the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-05 Sudhakar Mishra , U. S. Tiwary

Unlike the six basic emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust and surprise, modelling and predicting dimensional affect in terms of valence (positivity - negativity) and arousal (intensity) has proven to be more flexible,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chaudhary Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas , Siyang Song , Hatice Gunes

Affects---emotions and moods---have an impact on cognitive processing activities and the working performance of individuals. It has been established that software development tasks are undertaken through cognitive processing activities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-18 Daniel Graziotin , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

Automatic pain intensity estimation plays a pivotal role in healthcare and medical fields. While many methods have been developed to gauge human pain using behavioral or physiological indicators, facial expressions have emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Issam Serraoui , Eric Granger , Abdenour Hadid , Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

Managing post-surgical pain is critical for successful surgical outcomes. One of the challenges of pain management is accurately assessing the pain level of patients. Self-reported numeric pain ratings are limited because they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Matthew Lee , Lyndon Kennedy , Andreas Girgensohn , Lynn Wilcox , John Song En Lee , Chin Wen Tan , Ban Leong Sng

Previous studies regarding the perception of emotions for embodied virtual agents have shown the effectiveness of using virtual characters in conveying emotions through interactions with humans. However, creating an autonomous embodied…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Che-Jui Chang , Samuel S. Sohn , Sen Zhang , Rajath Jayashankar , Muhammad Usman , Mubbasir Kapadia

Accurate emotion recognition is pivotal for nuanced and engaging human-computer interactions, yet remains difficult to achieve, especially in dynamic, conversation-like settings. In this study, we showcase how integrating eye-tracking data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi , Jostein Fimland , Maria Barrett , Paolo Burelli

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