AFFECTIVE COMPUTING

Computer Engineering electronics Engineering Civil Engineering

Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from or deliberately influences emotions. Neurological studies indicate that the role of emotions in human cognition is essential and that emotions play a critical role in rational decision-making, perception, human interaction and human intelligence. In the view of increased human computer interaction or HCI it has become important that for proper and full interaction between Humans and Computers, computers should be able to at least recognize and react to different user emotion states. Emotion is a difficult thing to classify and study fully. Therefore to replicate or to detect emotions in agents is a challenging task. In Human-Human interaction it is often easy to see if a person is angry, happy, or frustrated etc. It is not easy to replicate such an ability in an agent. In this seminar I will be dealing with different aspects of affective computing including a brief study of human emotions, theory and practice related to affective systems, challenges to affective computing and systems which have been developed which and support this type of interaction. I will also be doing a tryst into the area of ethics related to this field as well as implication of computers which will have emotions of their own.Affective computing is an emerging, interdisciplinary area, addressing a variety of research, methodological, and technical issues pertaining to the integration of affect into human-computer interaction. The specific research areas include recognition of distinct affective states, user interface adaptation and function integration due to changes in user loading..