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Affective Computing

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Picard, Rosalind W.·1997·MIT Press
DOI 10.7551/mitpress/1140.001.0001
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According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions. The latest scientific findings indicate that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more—that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. Not only too much, but too little emotion can impair decision making. According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions. Part 1 of this book provides the intellectual framework for affective computing. It includes background on human emotions, requirements for emotionally intelligent computers, applications of affective computing, and moral and social questions raised by the technology. Part 2 discusses the design and construction of affective computers. Although this material is more technical than that in Part 1, the author has kept it less technical than typical scientific publications in order to make it accessible to newcomers. Topics in Part 2 include signal-based representations of emotions, human affect recognition as a pattern recognition and learning problem, recent and ongoing efforts to build models of emotion for synthesizing emotions in computers, and the new application area of affective wearable computers.

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Authors
Picard, R. W.
Affiliations
MIT Media Lab (US)
Corresponding author
Picard, Rosalind W.
ORCID
Picard, Rosalind W.
Venue
MIT Press
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
1997-09-24
DOI
10.7551/mitpress/1140.001.0001
OpenAlex
W2339343773
Cited by
7,382
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Citations by year
2026: 376 · 2025: 295 · 2024: 212 · 2023: 266 · 2022: 208 · 2021: 274 · 2020: 322 · 2019: 356 · 2018: 283 · 2017: 279 · 2016: 301 · 2015: 318 · 2014: 315 · 2013: 335 · 2012: 329
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92.96
Type
book
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by-nc-sa
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  • The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
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  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience
Keywords
affective computing, emotion recognition, emotion models, emotion synthesis, wearable computers, human-computer interaction, decision-making, pattern recognition

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