The broadcasting of original media through online platforms like YouTube or Twitch, referred to as “streaming”, is today more popular than traditional TV.
In any encounter the first moments are critical and the impressions that we form of others matter.
Affective computing is now an important research area of computer science with existing ties with the humanities as is demonstrated by the activities in text sentiment analysis and affective tagging of movies.
The project “Affective computing and emotion awareness in computer-mediated interaction” aims at developing emotion awareness tools (EAT) to improve the collaborative processes and outcomes of people working together through computers.