当今世界已步入电子社会的时代,人们开始期盼计算机像人一样具有情感,能与人进行自然和谐、亲切生动的智能交互。情感计算旨在通过赋予计算系统识别、理解、表达和适应人的情感的能力,来建立和谐人机环境,并使计算机具有更高的、全面的智能。开展情感计算研究,既有助于构建和谐的电子社会,也有益于推进心理科学的发展,让已经到来的电子社会和蓬勃发展的心理科学相得益彰。
We are now in a new era of electronic society. Computers are expected to have the abilities to influence or be influenced by human emotions and to interact with people more naturally and kindly. Affective computing aims at computing which endows a computing system with the abilities to recognize, understand, express, and respond to human emotion in a collaborative spirit to improve human affective experience with technology as well as to have computers with self-contained and self-sufficient intelligence. Affective computing research is of great benefit to both a harmonious electronic society and the development of psychological science