publications([{ "lang": "en", "publisher": "IEEE", "type_publi": "icolcomlec", "title": "Engineering affective computing: A unifying software architecture", "abstract": "In the field of affective computing, one of the most exciting motivations is to enable a computer to sense users' emotions. To achieve this goal an interactive application has to incorporate emotional sensitivity. Following an engineering approach, the key point is then to define a unifying software architecture that allows any interactive system to become emotionally sensitive. Most research focus on identifying and validating interpretation systems and/or emotional characteristics from different modalities. However, there is little focus on modeling generic software architecture for emotion recognition. Therefore, we propose an integrative approach and define such a generic software architecture based on the grounding theory of multimodality. We state that emotion recognition should be multimodal and serve as a tool for interaction. As such, we use results on multimodality in interactive applications to propose the emotion branch, a component-based architecture model for emotion recognition systems that integrates itself within general models for interactive systems. The emotion branch unifies existing emotion recognition applications architectures following the usual three-level schema: capturing signals from sensors, extracting and analyzing emotionally-relevant characteristics from the obtained data and interpreting these characteristics into an emotion. We illustrate the feasibility and the advantages of the emotion branch with a test case that we developed for gesture-based emotion recognition. \r\n", "authors": { "1": { "first_name": "Alexis", "last_name": "Clay" }, "2": { "first_name": "Nadine", "last_name": "Couture" }, "3": { "first_name": "Laurence", "last_name": "Nigay" } }, "year": 2009, "uri": "http://iihm.imag.fr/publication/CCN09a/", "pages": "1-6", "bibtype": "inproceedings", "id": 519, "editor": "IEEE", "address": "Amsterdam, The Netherlands", "date": "2009-09-10", "document": "http://iihm.imag.fr/publs/2009/ACII-2009ClayCoutureNigay.pdf", "type": "Conférences internationales de large diffusion avec comité de lecture sur texte complet", "booktitle": "Proceedings of ACII’09, the 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Spetember 10-12, 2009, IEEE", "abbr": "CCN09a" }]);