Affective Computing and Emotional Interaction

Covers affective computing and emotional interaction: emotion recognition, generation of emotional responses and artificial companions. Excludes the psychological and social impact of these systems, which belongs to 12.4, general interaction design, which belongs to 2.9, and protection of children and vulnerable groups, which belongs to 12.7.

• 2.9 Human–Computer Interaction
• 12.4 Psychological, Cognitive and Social Impact
• 12.7 Children, Affected Groups, and Local and Indigenous Knowledge

• 4.1 Natural Language Processing
• 4.2 Speech and Audio
• 4.3 Computer Vision and Video
• 4.4 Multimodal AI
• 4.5 Search, Planning and Reasoning
• 4.6 Expert Systems and Fuzzy Logic
• 4.7 Retrieval, Knowledge and Recommendation
• 4.8 Time Series and Anomaly Detection
• 4.9 Robotics, Control and Autonomy
• 4.10 Scientific and Creative AI
• 4.11 Localization, Low-Resource Languages and Cultural Representation
• 4.12 Inference-Time Reasoning
• 4.14 Technology Convergence: QML, Bio-AI and Neurotechnology