Towards a Learning Companion that Recognizes Affect
- Ashish Kapoor ,
- Selene Mota ,
- Rosalind W. Picard
Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition, AAAI Fall Symposium 2001, North Falmouth, MA |
This paper reports work in progress to build a Learning Companion, a computerized system sensitive to the affective aspects of learning, which facilitates the child’s own efforts at learning. Learning related to science, math, engineering, and technology naturally involves failure and a host of associated affective responses. This article describes techniques and tools being developed to recognize affective states important in the interplay between emotions and learning.