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In the science of emotion, it is widely assumed that folk emotion categories form a biological and psychological typology, and studies are routinely designed and analyzed to identify emotion-specific patterns. This approach shapes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Christiana Westlin , Ashutosh Singh , Deniz Erdogmus , Georgios Stratis , Lisa Feldman Barrett

Sentiment analysis predicts the presence of positive or negative emotions in a text document. In this paper, we consider higher dimensional extensions of the sentiment concept, which represent a richer set of human emotions. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-01-16 Seungyeon Kim , Fuxin Li , Guy Lebanon , Irfan Essa

Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Grigorios Kalliatakis , Nikolaos Vidakis , Georgios Triantafyllidis

Emotion Recognition in Conversation has been seen to be widely applicable in call center analytics, opinion mining, finance, retail, healthcare, and other industries. In a call center scenario, the role of the call center agent is not just…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Aditi Debsharma , Bhushan Jagyasi , Surajit Sen , Priyanka Pandey , Devicharith Dovari , Yuvaraj V. C , Rosalin Parida , Gopali Contractor

While the field of affective computing has contributed to greatly improving the seamlessness of human-robot interactions, the focus has primarily been on the emotional processing of the self, rather than the perception of the other. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Maria Teresa Parreira , Michael J. Sack , Malte Jung

The process of human affect understanding involves the ability to infer person specific emotional states from various sources including images, speech, and language. Affect perception from images has predominantly focused on expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Digbalay Bose , Rajat Hebbar , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Human communication includes information, opinions, and reactions. Reactions are often captured by the affective-messages in written as well as verbal communications. While there has been work in affect modeling and to some extent affective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Sopan Khosla , Niyati Chhaya , Kushal Chawla

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

Sentiment analysis predicts the presence of positive or negative emotions in a text document. In this paper we consider higher dimensional extensions of the sentiment concept, which represent a richer set of human emotions. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Seungyeon Kim , Fuxin Li , Guy Lebanon , Irfan Essa

Inter-personal touch is a powerful aspect of social interaction that we expect to be particularly important for emotional communication. We studied the capacity of closely acquainted humans to signal the meaning of several word cues (e.g.…

Speech emotions play a crucial role in human-computer interaction, shaping engagement and context-aware communication. Despite recent advances in spoken dialogue systems, a holistic system for evaluating emotional reasoning is still…

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in everyday life, the ability of interactive agents to express empathy has become critical for effective human-AI interaction, particularly in emotionally sensitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sung Park , Daeho Yoon , Jungmin Lee

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

In recent decades, the field of affective computing has made substantial progress in advancing the ability of AI systems to recognize and express affective phenomena, such as affect and emotions, during human-human and human-machine…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Leena Mathur , Maja J Matarić , Louis-Philippe Morency

Empathy is a cognitive and emotional reaction to an observed situation of others. Empathy has recently attracted interest because it has numerous applications in psychology and AI, but it is unclear how different forms of empathy (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Damilola Omitaomu , Shabnam Tafreshi , Tingting Liu , Sven Buechel , Chris Callison-Burch , Johannes Eichstaedt , Lyle Ungar , João Sedoc

Affective Computing is a rapidly growing field spurred by advancements in artificial intelligence, but often, held back by the inability to translate psychological theories of emotion into tractable computational models. To address this, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Harold Soh , Jamil Zaki , Noah D. Goodman

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

Short-term human pose prediction plays a crucial role in interactive systems, assistive robots, and emotion-aware human-computer interaction[1-3]. While current trajectory prediction models primarily rely on geometric motion cues, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jingni Huang , Peter Bloodsworth

Most existing emotion analysis emphasizes which emotion arises (e.g., happy, sad, angry) but neglects the deeper why. We propose Emotion Interpretation (EI), focusing on causal factors-whether explicit (e.g., observable objects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Lin , Jingdong Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jue Wang , Haomin Liang , Zebang Cheng , Yifei Dong , Jun-Yan He , Xiaojiang Peng , Xian-Sheng Hua

As robots and artificial agents become increasingly integrated into daily life, enhancing their ability to interact with humans is essential. Emotions, which play a crucial role in human interactions, can improve the naturalness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Francesca Corrao , Alice Nardelli , Jennifer Renoux , Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto