Recognition and analysis of human emotions have attracted a lot of interest in the past two
decades and have been researched extensively in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive …

Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

The conveyance and recognition of affect and emotion partially determine how people
interact with others and how they carry out and perform in their day-to-day activities. Hence …

Multimodal learning mimics the reasoning process of the human multi-sensory system,
which is used to perceive the surrounding world. While making a prediction, the human …

New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though
the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the …

Emotions significantly affect the human interaction process with computers. They constitute a
dynamic user's characteristic that can be crucial for adapting user interfaces (UI) to the user's …

Vision-based human affect analysis is an interesting and challenging problem, impacting
important applications in many areas. In this paper, beyond facial expressions, we …

This paper introduces the architecture of an emotion-aware ambient intelligent and
gerontechnological project named “Improvement of the Elderly Quality of Life and Care …

Arm-and-hand tracking by technological means allows gathering data that can be
elaborated for determining gesture meaning. To this aim, machine learning (ML) algorithms …

This chapter first addresses the question of 'why bodily expression?', and attempts to find
answers by reviewing the latest bodily expression perception literature. It then turns its …