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In the field of affective computing, where research continually advances at a rapid pace, the demand for user-friendly tools has become increasingly apparent. In this paper, we present the AffectToolbox, a novel software system that aims to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Silvan Mertes , Dominik Schiller , Michael Dietz , Elisabeth André , Florian Lingenfelser

Emotions widely affect human decision-making. This fact is taken into account by affective computing with the goal of tailoring decision support to the emotional states of individuals. However, the accurate recognition of emotions within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Bernhard Kratzwald , Suzana Ilic , Mathias Kraus , Stefan Feuerriegel , Helmut Prendinger

Affective computing seeks to support the holistic development of artificial intelligence by enabling machines to engage with human emotion. Recent foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs), have been trained and evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sree Bhattacharyya , Evgenii Kuriabov , Lucas Craig , Tharun Dilliraj , Reginald B. Adams, , Jia Li , James Z. Wang

The field of affective computing focuses on recognizing, interpreting, and responding to human emotions, and has broad applications across education, child development, and human health and wellness. However, developing affective computing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Emily Zhou , Khushboo Khatri , Yixue Zhao , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

This paper introduces the notion of affective extended reality (XR) to characterise XR systems that use biodata to enable understanding of emotions. The HCI literature contains many such systems, but they have not yet been mapped into a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhidian Lin , Allison Jing , Ziyuan Qu , Fabio Zambetta , Ryan M. Kelly

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

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

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

Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) aims to recognize and interpret human emotions by integrating information from diverse modalities such as text, video, and audio. Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Miaosen Luo , Jiesen Long , Zequn Li , Yunying Yang , Yuncheng Jiang , Sijie Mai

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

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are designed to process and integrate information from multiple sources, such as text, speech, images, and videos. Despite its success in language understanding, it is critical to evaluate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Lu , Xuesong Niu , Jiyao Wang , Yin Wang , Qingyong Hu , Jiaqi Tang , Yuting Zhang , Kaishen Yuan , Bin Huang , Zitong Yu , Dengbo He , Shuiguang Deng , Hao Chen , Yingcong Chen , Shiguang Shan

With the rapid advancements in multimodal generative technology, Affective Computing research has provoked discussion about the potential consequences of AI systems equipped with emotional intelligence. Affective Computing involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Shreya Ghosh , Zhixi Cai , Abhinav Dhall , Dimitrios Kollias , Roland Goecke , Tom Gedeon

This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Nicola Fabiano

Recent advances in neurosciences and psychology have provided evidence that affective phenomena pervade intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from the cognitionaction loop. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decisionmaking,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Luis Paulo Reis , Daria Barteneva , Nuno Lau

After the development of different machine learning and manifold learning algorithms, it may be a good time to put them together to make a powerful mind for machine. In this work, we propose affective manifolds as components of a machine's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Benyamin Ghojogh

In recent years, Affective Computing and its applications have become a fast-growing research topic. Furthermore, the rise of Deep Learning has introduced significant improvements in the emotion recognition system compared to classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Joaquim Comas , Decky Aspandi , Xavier Binefa

The dawn of Foundation Models has on the one hand revolutionised a wide range of research problems, and, on the other hand, democratised the access and use of AI-based tools by the general public. We even observe an incursion of these…

Emotions play a critical role in our everyday lives by altering how we perceive, process and respond to our environment. Affective computing aims to instill in computers the ability to detect and act on the emotions of human actors. A core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Connor T. Heaton , David M. Schwartz

Humans are emotional creatures. Multiple modalities are often involved when we express emotions, whether we do so explicitly (e.g., facial expression, speech) or implicitly (e.g., text, image). Enabling machines to have emotional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Sicheng Zhao , Guoli Jia , Jufeng Yang , Guiguang Ding , Kurt Keutzer

Affective computing stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI), seeking to imbue machines with the ability to comprehend and respond to human emotions. Central to this field is emotion recognition, which endeavors to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fei Ma , Yucheng Yuan , Yifan Xie , Hongwei Ren , Ivan Liu , Ying He , Fuji Ren , Fei Richard Yu , Shiguang Ni