Emotions have an enormous impact on our momentary performance, health, and way of
relating to others, hence on the quality of a persons' life. In particular, the experience of …

Self-assessment methods are broadly employed in emotion research for the collection of
subjective affective ratings. The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM), a pictorial scale developed …

Emotions are complicated. Humans feel deeply, and it can be hard to bring clarity to those
depths, to communicate about feelings, or to understand others' emotional states. Indeed …

Emotions play a fundamental role in people's life. They influence work performance,
learning outcomes [20], decision making [30], physical health and more [27]. Emotional well …

Affective computing (AC) adopts a computational approach to study affect. We highlight the
AC approach towards automated affect measures that jointly model machine-readable …

Traditional tools used to evaluate the Quality of Experience (QoE) of users after browsing an
ad, using a product, or performing any kind of task typically involves surveys, user testing …

Affective Computing has matured into an exciting and promising research discipline; several
applications already show its immense potential in realizing the next generation of …

Exploring the objective signals associated with subjective emotional states has practical
significance. Emotional experiences play a fundamental role in people's well-being [1] and …

Mental health problems are on the rise globally and strain national health systems
worldwide. Mental disorders are closely associated with fear of stigma, structural barriers …

Our teams at MIT and at Affectiva have invented mobile sensors and software that can help
sense autonomic stress and activity levels comfortably while you are on the go, eg the …