Technology that helps machines notice, understand, and respond to human emotions.
It is like a very nosy mood coach. You say “I’m fine,” but it notices your tight smile and your “don’t-touch-my-fries” voice.
It helps AI read feelings and answer with more care. You meet it in companion bots, service chats, learning apps, and cars.
Multimodal AI
Affective computing often uses voice, faces, and text to guess feelings.
Digital human
Affective computing can help a Digital human read the room better.
AI-bias
Bad emotion reading can misread some groups of people.
Alignment
Affective computing affects how AI comforts, persuades, and replies.