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Introduction Introduction
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In the Beginning, Laughter… In the Beginning, Laughter…
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Discovering Real Importance for Emotion Discovering Real Importance for Emotion
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Who Wants to Risk Ruining His Reputation? Who Wants to Risk Ruining His Reputation?
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Visionary Supporters Trump Peer Review Visionary Supporters Trump Peer Review
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2 The Promise of Affective Computing
Get accessRosalind W. Picard (M’81–SM’00–F’05) received the Bachelors degree with highest honors in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1984, and the S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1984 to 1987, she was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ where she contributed to the creation of novel computer architecture for image compression. She interned at Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Scien-tific Atlanta and consulted at a variety of companies, including Apple, IRobot, BT, and Motorola. She is professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where she is also the founder and director of the Affective Computing Group. She is co-founder of Affectiva, Inc., a company created to help people measure and communi-cate emotion. Picard has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific articles. She is known for pioneering research in image and video content-based retrieval (the original Photobook system), for developing texture models and machine learning for their combination (Society of Models), and for her book Affective Computing (MIT Press, 1997), which envisioned and helped launch the field by that name. Her research inter-ests include the development of technology to help people comfortably and respectfully measure and communicate affective information especially for applications related to various developmental or affective disorders.
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Published:01 July 2014
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Abstract
This chapter is from the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing edited by Rafael Calvo, Sidney K. D'Mello, Jonathan Gratch, and Arvid Kappas. This chapter is adapted from an invited introduction written for the first issue of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, telling personal stories and sharing the viewpoints of a pioneer and visionary of the field of affective computing. This is not intended to be a thorough or a historical account of the development of the field because the author is not a historian and cannot begin to properly credit the extraordinary efforts of hundreds of people who helped bring this field into fruition. Instead, this chapter recounts experiences that contribute to this history, with an eye toward eliciting some of the pleasurable affective and cognitive responses that will be a part of the promise of affective computing.
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