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Understanding emotions is fundamental to human interaction and experience. Humans easily infer emotions from situations or facial expressions, situations from emotions, and do a variety of other affective cognition. How adept is modern AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Kanishk Gandhi , Zoe Lynch , Jan-Philipp Fränken , Kayla Patterson , Sharon Wambu , Tobias Gerstenberg , Desmond C. Ong , Noah D. Goodman

Automated emotion recognition has applications in various fields, such as human-machine interaction, healthcare, security, education, and emotion-aware recommendation/feedback systems. Developing methods to analyze human emotions accurately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Ruijie Fang , Ruoyu Zhang , Elahe Hosseini , Chongzhou Fang , Mahdi Eslaminehr , Setareh Rafatirad , Houman Homayoun

Successful management of emotional stimuli is a pivotal issue concerning Affective Computing (AC) and the related research. As a subfield of Artificial Intelligence, AC is concerned not only with the design of computer systems and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Marko Horvat , Sinisa Popovic , Nikola Bogunovic , Kresimir Cosic

People naturally understand emotions, thus permitting a machine to do the same could open new paths for human-computer interaction. Facial expressions can be very useful for emotion recognition techniques, as these are the biggest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Pietro B. S. Masur , Willams Costa , Lucas S. Figueredo , Veronica Teichrieb

In personalized machine learning, the aim of personalization is to train a model that caters to a specific individual or group of individuals by optimizing one or more performance metrics and adhering to specific constraints. In this paper,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jialin Li , Maha Elgarf , Alia Waleed , Hanan Salam

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems have demonstrated huge improvements and human-level parity in a range of activities, including speech recognition, face recognition and speaker verification. However, these diverse tasks…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Emily Mower Provost , Julien Epps , Carlos Busso , Nicholas Cummins , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotion recognition is relevant in various domains, ranging from healthcare to human-computer interaction. Physiological signals, being beyond voluntary control, offer reliable information for this purpose, unlike speech and facial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Eleonora Lopez , Aurelio Uncini , Danilo Comminiello

Empathy indicates an individual's ability to understand others. Over the past few years, empathy has drawn attention from various disciplines, including but not limited to Affective Computing, Cognitive Science, and Psychology. Detecting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Md Rakibul Hasan , Md Zakir Hossain , Shreya Ghosh , Aneesh Krishna , Tom Gedeon

This paper surveys the current state of the art in affective computing principles, methods and tools as applied to games. We review this emerging field, namely affective game computing, through the lens of the four core phases of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Georgios N. Yannakakis , David Melhart

The primary objective is to teach a machine about human emotions, which has become an essential requirement in the field of social intelligence, also expedites the progress of human-machine interactions. The ability of a machine to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Sai Nikhil Chennoor , B. R. K. Madhur , Moujiz Ali , T. Kishore Kumar

Many individuals especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), alexithymia, or other neurodivergent profiles face challenges in recognizing, expressing, or interpreting emotions. To support more inclusive and personalized emotion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela , Yukie Nagai

The aim of this research is development of rule based decision model for emotion recognition. This research also proposes using the rules for augmenting inter-corporal recognition accuracy in multimodal systems that use supervised learning…

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

The paper describes BIRAFFE2 data set, which is a result of an affective computing experiment conducted between 2019 and 2020, that aimed to develop computer models for classification and recognition of emotion. Such work is important to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Krzysztof Kutt , Dominika Drążyk , Maciej Szelążek , Szymon Bobek , Grzegorz J. Nalepa

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multi-modal, interdisciplinary field focused on designing, studying, and improving the interactions between people and computer systems. This involves the design of systems that can recognize,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Paul Schreiber , Beyza Cinar , Lennart Mackert , Maria Maleshkova

Sentic computing relies on well-defined affective models of different complexity - polarity to distinguish positive and negative sentiment, for example, or more nuanced models to capture expressions of human emotions. When used to measure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Albert Weichselbraun , Jakob Steixner , Adrian M. P. Braşoveanu , Arno Scharl , Max Göbel , Lyndon J. B. Nixon

In this paper we address the problem of multi-cue affect recognition in challenging scenarios such as child-robot interaction. Towards this goal we propose a method for automatic recognition of affect that leverages body expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Panagiotis P. Filntisis , Niki Efthymiou , Petros Koutras , Gerasimos Potamianos , Petros Maragos

Although the terms mood and emotion are closely related and often used interchangeably, they are distinguished based on their duration, intensity and attribution. To date, hardly any computational models have (a) examined mood recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Soujanya Narayana , Ramanathan Subramanian , Ibrahim Radwan , Roland Goecke

The rapid expansion of social media platforms has provided unprecedented access to massive amounts of multimodal user-generated content. Comprehending user emotions can provide valuable insights for improving communication and understanding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sree Bhattacharyya , Shuhua Yang , James Z. Wang

Emotion recognition plays an important role in human-computer interaction (HCI) and has been extensively studied for decades. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved for posed expressions, recognizing human emotions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jie Cai , Zibo Meng , Ahmed Shehab Khan , Zhiyuan Li , James O'Reilly , Shizhong Han , Ping Liu , Min Chen , Yan Tong

In the last decade, researchers have increasingly explored using biosensing technologies for music-based affective regulation and stress management interventions in laboratory and real-world settings. These systems -- including interactive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Natasha Yamane , Varun Mishra , Matthew S. Goodwin