Room & Time:
E15-359
Tuesdays 10am-noon
Textbooks:
Picard, R.W. (2000). Affective Computing. The MIT Press.
Calvo, R.A., D'Mello, S.K., Gratch, J., and Kappas, A. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing. Oxford University Press.
Other readings will be handed out as needed.
Class Schedule (Subject to Change):
1. Tuesday Sep 15
Introduction to Affective Computing &
The Challenge of Mood Measurement and Forecasting
2. Tuesday Sep 22 Affect Recognition, Part 1
3. Tuesday Sep 29 Students Present on 2-3 "Rough Project Ideas"
4. Tuesday Oct 6 Sensing Emotion Directly and Indirectly
Project Proposal Plan Due - Picard will plan to
give you personalized feedback on your plan by Oct 14
(Tuesday Oct 13 - No Class - Monday Schedule of Classes at MIT)
5. Tuesday Oct 20 Affective Technology Interaction & Empathy
6. Tuesday Oct 27 State of the art facial expression recognition
and what it tells us about emotion, Dr. Dan McDuff, Director of Research, Affectiva, and Research Affiliate MIT.
7. Tuesday Nov 3 Project Presentations: Background and Design
8. Tuesday Nov 10 Stress recognition and relief, Dr. Javier Hernandez
9. Tuesday Nov 17 Ethical issues related to affective computing.
10. Tuesday Nov 24 Grab bag of AC topics.
11. Tuesday Dec 1 Final Project Presentations & Discussion
12. Tuesday Dec 8 Final Project Presentations & Celebration
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Sample Topics - Final topics will be selected with input from this year's class:
Emotionally Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
Emotion and Perception, Decision-making, and Creativity
Emotion and Learning
Physiology of Emotion
Neuroscience Findings Related to Emotion
Affect Recognition by Machines (incl. wearable systems)
Communicating Frustration/Stress in Autism and in Customer Experience
Responding to User Emotion to Reduce User Frustration
Inducing Emotion
Robots/Agents that "have" Emotion
Emotion and Behavior
Expression of Emotion by Machines/Agents/Synthetic characters
Philosophical, Social, Ethical Implications of Affective Computing
Machine/Mobile Empathy and Emotional Support
Lie Detection and Stress Detection
Evaluation:
20% Classroom participation
35% Weekly ssignments (reading/response)
45% Project and presentation
Project:
You will be required to complete a
project for the course. Initial project ideas will be presented
on Tues Sep 29 in class. By Oct 6, your project plan is
due. Project progress presentations will occur
on Tuesday Nov 3.
***Attendance on project proposal and final project
presentation days is required***
Attendance counts substantially toward
your class participation grade. You will learn A LOT from
engaging with each others' projects so make sure to be in town!
2013 Project Examples,
2011 Project Examples,
2008 Project Examples,
2005 Project Examples.
COUHES for Class Projects: All projects that involve research on human
participants must have the prior approval of the MIT Committee on the
Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES). If you can piggyback
on a current COUHES protocol, that is fastest/easiest. If not, you
need to MOVE FAST to submit a COUHES application because the fall COUHES meeting
dates require applications to be in by either Sep 24 for approval
by their meeting on Oct 15, or submitted by Oct 27 for their meeting
on Nov 19. Moreover, the Media Lab (Linda Peterson, Mitch Resnick, or
Pattie Maes) asks to have it a week earlier; they must sign off in
advance before you can submit to COUHES. Also, before it can be
approved you must pass your "CITI
certification".
If you've never done a COUHES application, you should start this more
than two weeks before the deadline. Please plan to meet
w/Prof. Picard to brainstorm project ideas as soon as possible. Let's
work together to help you have a positive experience and a successful
project!
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