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Michelle Schlicher, Yupei Li, Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy, Qiyang Sun + 1 more
Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have become increasingly prominent as scalable solutions to address global mental health needs. However, many existing tools lack the emotional sensitivity required to foster meaningful engagement and therapeutic effectiveness. Affective computing, a field focused on…
Raziyeh Zall, Alireza Kheyrkhah, Erik Cambria, Zahra Naseri + 1 more
The development of agents with emotional intelligence is becoming increasingly vital due to their significant role in human-computer interaction and the growing integration of computer systems across various sectors of society. Affective computing aims to design intelligent systems that can recognize, evoke, and…
Xiao Sun
—Capturing authentic emotional expressions in realworld ubiquitous settings has long challenged affective computing, largely due to the lack of extensive, longitudinal data collected from small-group naturalistic environments. To address this gap and advance ubiquitous affective computing, we introduce WELD—a dataset…
María del Pilar Beristain-Colorado, Patricia Batres-Mendoza, Erick Israel Guerra-Hernández, José Luis Cano-Pérez + 5 more
Background Serious games have become an alternative support for traditional physical therapy. However, many of these games do not address the emotional needs of patients. People with disabilities often experience emotions such as sadness, frustration, and even anger, which can create a barrier to their rehabilitation…
Peter Walla, Tjeerd Olde Scheper, Pietro Aricò
The scientific study of affect has been historically characterized by a profound lack of terminological consensus, leading to a state of conceptual fragmentation that persists in psychology, neuroscience and many other fields. This ambiguity is not merely an academic concern; it has significant consequences for the…
Xiaowei Chen, Azlan Abdul Aziz, Zainuddin Ibrahim, Yuvaraj Rajamanickam
Understanding how interactive digital art affects emotional states is essential to advance research into the interface between affective neuroscience and human-computer interaction. Although previous studies have used either EEG or self-reported measures to evaluate emotional responses, only a few have integrated both…
Jinli Xue, Yuhan Liu, Zengfang Ren, Yige Wu
With the rapid advancement of AI technology, an increasing number of organizations are introducing AI as formal employees in the workplace. By conducting hypothesis testing on 400 sample data from eight highly digitalized companies in China, the findings show that the perception of AI empathy can enhance employees'…
Sung Park, Daeho Yoon, Jungmin Lee
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 contexts. Rather than treating empathy as a binary capability, this study examines how…
Jan K. Argasinski
Affect-adaptive systems increasingly act as communicators that sense a user's emotion and respond with events meant to change it, closing an affective loop. This vision assumes both that a machine's affective messages are received and that the bodily channel it monitors carries an intelligible reply-assumptions rarely…
Ronghao Lin, Honghao Lu, Ruixing Wu, Aolin Xiong + 4 more
As a knowledge discovery task over heterogeneous data sources, current Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) heavily rely on the completeness of multiple modalities to accurately understand human's affective state. However, in real-world scenarios, the availability of modality data is often dynamic and uncertain…
Aleksandrs Vališevskis, Aleksandrs Okss, Inese Tīģere, Aleksejs Kataševs + 6 more
Soft, sensorized companions offer a physically safe and emotionally intuitive interface for socially assistive technologies, yet their deformability and multichannel tactile sensing complicate the robust interpretation of human affect. This study presents a complete open-source MATLAB-based framework for the…
Bliss Cui, Peter Bex
Affect recognition and communication are critical for everyday social interaction. Traditional emotion research has often assumed that facial expressions reliably reflect internal emotional states and conform to a set of universal expressions. However, emerging evidence suggests that facial expressions are highly…
Brais Gonzalez Sousa, Daniel Senkowski, Shu-Chen Li
Observing touch activates similar brain regions as experiencing an actual touch, suggesting that visual information can cross-modally influence tactile perception. This electroencephalography (EEG) study investigated how observing being touched affects the processing and perception of digitally delivered tactile…
Iwon Yang, Chaery Park, Jongwan Kim
Emotions are dynamic experiences that unfold over time, yet most affective neuroscience studies have relied on static stimuli and laboratory-based EEG systems. This study examined whether emotional valence and arousal can be reliably decoded using a consumer-grade wearable EEG device in naturalistic contexts.…
Bruno Cesar Burin Maracia, Thales Rezende Souza, Gabriela Silva Oliveira, Júlia Beatriz Palma Nunes + 7 more
Dance is a core form of human-environment interaction and a powerful medium for emotional expression, yet dancers are routinely exposed to environmental affective cues that may shape their movement. We tested whether a negative emotional context induced immediately before improvisation alters dance biomechanics. Twenty…
Mengsi Li, Brooke E. Schwartzman, Tori N. LeVier, Barry Giesbrecht + 1 more
Emotional experiences unfold over time and can bias the appraisal and memory of subsequent events. Yet, it remains unclear whether and how the temporal organization of memory regulates the persistence of affect over time, or affective spillover—and conversely, how emotional-valence dynamics sculpts temporal memory. We…