Affective Interaction & Sensitive Classroom

Affective computing is one of the most recent research areas in HCI. Researchers are trying to incorporate affect and emotion in HCI to make the interaction sympathetic, empathic, or simply affective. The ambition is to improve usability and user experience by making systems more natural and responsive to user goals. The team emphasizes identifying the affective state of users of small handheld and touchscreen devices. At the same time, a sensitive classroom system is being developed where the emotional states of students are taken care of to make the teaching-learning process more efficient. Based on emotional and mental states, teaching-learning strategies dynamically change to enhance student interest and engagement. Students are warned if not engaged; instructors are alerted if maximum students are not engaged or unable to understand.