Emotion ontologies have been developed to capture affect, a concept that encompasses
discrete emotions and feelings, especially for research on sentiment analysis, which …

This is an invited introduction to the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing, telling personal stories and sharing viewpoints of a pioneer and visionary of the …

We describe a set of experiments using automatically labelled data to train supervised
classifiers for multi-class emotion detection in Twitter messages with no manual intervention …

Nowadays, healthy lifestyle, fitness, and diet habits have become central applications in our
daily life. Positive psychology such as well-being and happiness is the ultimate dream of …

Online human textual interaction often carries important emotional meanings inaccessible to
computers. We propose an approach to textual emotion recognition in the context of …

Humans are feeling emotions every day, but they can still encounter difficulties
understanding them. To better understand emotions, we integrated interdisciplinary …

Social companion robots are getting more attention to assist elderly people to stay
independent at home and to decrease their social isolation. When develo** solutions, one …

This paper presents CAO, a system for affect analysis of emoticons in Japanese online
communication. Emoticons are strings of symbols widely used in text-based online …

Background Healthcare services, particularly in patient-provider interaction, often involve
highly emotional situations, and it is important for physicians to understand and respond to …

Human behavior is impacted by emotion, mood, personality, needs and subjective well-
being. Emotion and mood are human affective states while personality, needs and …