Affective computing / Rosalind W. Picard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picard, Rosalind W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1997]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Picard, Rosalind W. Affective computing.

ISBN:

9780262281584

0262281589

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.