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Syllabus



Syllabus


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Textbook


Amazon logo Picard, R. W. Affective Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780262661157.



Class Structure


As a participant in this course, you will be asked to form a group with 2-3 other people. Each week, you will meet with members of your group to discuss the readings and respond to questions from the assignments page as well as any other questions espoused during your conversations. Additionally, the first three class sessions will be facilitated by the instructor. From the third session onward, study groups will take over. By the end of the term, all individuals and each study group will have had an opportunity to facilitate the learning process. Each week, the instructor will forward copies of each study group responses so that the facilitating group can take them into account when planning an agenda for the class. This agenda should include discussion of questions posed by each group as well as brief updates of project progress.



Topics Covered


  • Neuroscience findings related to emotion
  • Emotion and perception, decision-making, and creativity
  • Emotion and learning
  • Physiology of emotion
  • Affect recognition by machines (including wearable systems)
  • Communicating frustration/stress in autism and in customer experience
  • Responding to user emotion to reduce user frustration
  • Inducing emotion
  • Robots/agents that "have" emotion
  • Emotion and behavior
  • Expression of emotion by machines/agents/synthetic characters
  • Philosophical, social, ethical implications of affective computing
  • Empathy


Project


You will be required to complete a project for the course. As a part of this project you are asked to submit a proposal draft by Ses #5 and a final proposal due Ses #6. Project presentations will occur Ses #11 and Ses #12.



Attendance


All students are expected to attend all classes and all project presentations. Please contact Prof. Rosalind Picard in advance if you will have to miss class. Unexcused absence will affect your grade. The final project presentations are especially important for everyone to attend; please do not plan to leave for summer until after the last day of class.



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Grading



ACTIVITIESPERCENTAGES
Classroom participation20%
Nine assignments (reading/response)40%
Project and presentation40%



Calendar



LEC #TOPICSINSTRUCTORSKEY DATES
1Course introduction, visitors welcomeProf. Rosalind PicardResponse 1 due 4 days later
2Technologies for recognizing affect-related informationProf. Rosalind PicardResponse 2 due 4 days later
3Empathy and its measurement

Shani Daily, TA

Guest speaker: Carl Marci, MD, MGH

Response 3 due 4 days later
4How do you build empathetic technology? What happens when technology appears to show empathy? Picard leadingProf. Rosalind PicardResponse 4 due 4 days later
5Multi-modal affect recognition and recognition from facial expressionM. Todd Farrell, Media Lab Biomechatronics Research Group
6Reading emotions from facial expressions and emotion as a constructed processGuest speaker: Prof. James Russell, Boston CollegeProject proposal due
7Emotion regulationRob Morris, Media Lab Affective Computing Group

Response 5 due 3 days before

Response 6 due 4 days later

8Cognitive-affective influences; creativity; detection of subtle affectProf. Rosalind Picard

Paragraph on project accomplishments due

Response 7 due 4 days later

9Affect in patient-physician interactionsJohn Moore, MD, Media Lab New Media Medicine Group
10Potential concerns of affective computing researchJackie Lee, Media Lab Affective Computing GroupResponse 8 due
11New affective technology research directionsProf. Rosalind Picard
12Project presentations

 








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