Part 1 of this book provides the intellectual framework for affective computing. It includes background on human emotions, requirements for emotionally intelligent computers, applications of affective computing, and moral and social questions raised by the technology. Part 2 discusses the design and construction of affective computers. Topics in Part 2 include signal-based representations of emotions, human affect recognition as a pattern recognition and learning problem, recent and ongoing efforts to build models of emotion for synthesizing emotions in computers, and the new application area of affective wearable computers.

本书的第1部分提供了情感计算的智能框架。它包括人类情感的背景、情感智能计算机的需求、情感计算的应用以及该技术提出的道德和社会问题。第二部分讨论了情感计算机的设计和构造。第2部分中的主题包括基于信号的情感表示、作为模式识别和学习问题的人类情感识别、最近和正在进行的在计算机中构建情感合成模型的努力，以及情感可穿戴计算机的新应用领域。