Until recently, most studies investigating the acute relationships between affective and
physical feeling states and physical activity were conducted in controlled laboratory settings …

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with
is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has …

Thanks to the decreasing cost of whole-body sensing technology and its increasing
reliability, there is an increasing interest in, and understanding of, the role played by body …

Past research in analysis of human affect has focused on recognition of prototypic
expressions of six basic emotions based on posed data acquired in laboratory settings …

Recognition and analysis of human emotions have attracted a lot of interest in the past two
decades and have been researched extensively in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive …

In this book common sense computing techniques are further developed and applied to
bridge the semantic gap between word-level natural language data and the concept-level …

Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

Nonverbal communication is an important part of human communication, including head
nodding, eye gaze, proximity and body orientation. Recent research has identified specific …

This paper presents our effort to the Audio/Visual+ Emotion Challenge (AV+ EC2015),
whose goal is to predict the continuous values of the emotion dimensions arousal and …

Human emotions unfold over time, and more affective computing research has to prioritize
capturing this crucial component of real-world affect. Modeling dynamic emotional stimuli …