The Emotional Side of Computing

Affective Computing is an emerging field that combines artificial intelligence and behavioral science to recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. It aims to promote emotional intelligence in algorithms and simulate emotions like humans. The field has seen significant advances from exploratory studies to real-world applications, including the new Apple Watch Ultra, which uses sensors to detect body temperature, skin temperature, and other psychological data through its sensors and communicate it to AI systems for health analysis. Multimodal Affective Computing offers a concise overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches in applied affective computing systems and social signal processing.