Studies // Cited work
Affective computing
Picard, R. W. (1997). Affective computing.
Level E Book
What this study supports
Supports the historical claim that affective computing was framed as a research field in 1997. It is not evidence that emotion can be validly inferred from signals.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: a monograph defining the field of affective computing.
- Design
- Book
- Level of evidence
- Theory, classical and historical texts, records and software: no empirical claim of their own.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
TheoreticalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
Affective computing, framed as a research field in 1997, builds systems on contested models of emotion and proxy data, and these choices shape the ethical and social implications of emotion-AI systems.
- Scope
- Emotion-recognition and emotion-AI systems in general.
- Caveat
- A conceptual argument, not an audit of specific products.
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