TR#541: Designing for Affective Interactions
Carson Reynolds and Rosalind W. Picard
Appears in: Proceedings from the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New Orleans, August 2001
ABSTRACT
An affective human-computer interaction is one in which emotional information is communicated by the user in a natural and
comfortable way, recognized by the computer, and used to help improve the interaction. Before the computer or its designer
can adapt an interaction to better serve an individual user, feedback from that user must be associated with the actions of
the machine: did a specific computer action please or displease the user? Did something in the interaction frustrate the
user? One of the essential issues is sensing and recognizing the affective information communicated by the user in a way
that is comfortable and reliable. This paper highlights several devices we have built that offer users means of communicating
affectiveinformation to a computer.
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