Fall 2024
CS 886: Affective Computing

Schedule: T/Th 1130am-1250pm
Room: DC2585
Instructor: Jesse Hoey

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Schedule (Tentative - subject to change)

See readings for links to many of these papers. Material that is not available online at the library will be handed out in class or on Slack. This list will be updated as the course progresses. A series of lectures were recorded in Fall of 2021, and these can be seen on this playlist. All slides are from the Fall 2021 offering, and will be updated as the course progresses. Updated slides will be posted prior to the lecture and marked as 2024.

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• September 5th, 2024 Lecture 1: General Introduction
  • slides (2024)

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• Sept. 10th, 2024 Lecture I: What is emotion?
  Readings:
  • Picard Affective Computing (introduction)
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)

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• Sept 12th, 2024 Lecture II: Socio-Cultural theories of Emotion (I)
  Readings:
  • Joseph Henrich The Weirdest People in the World (read to page 23, rest optional)
  Other Material:
  • Wikipedia page on Henrichs book
  • lecture slides (2024)

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• Sept 17th, 2024 No class

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• Sept 19th, 2024 Lecture III: Socio-Cultural theories of Emotion (II)
  Readings:
  • Mark Johnson and George Lakoff Metaphors we live by (read 2003 afterword - starts on p171 of this version, p243 in the book).
  • Holyoak and Thagard Mental Leaps 1996, chapter 3. Online available in the library uwaterloo library (should work on campus or via VPN), or download chapter 3
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • article on LLMs for metaphors

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• Sept 24th/Oct 1 2024 Lecture IV: Socio-cultural theories of emotion (III: Dual Process Models)
  Readings:
  • Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (read chapters 1-3).
  • reading (audiobook) of Kahneman's book.
  • Simon Stenstrom and Read The Coherence Effect: Blending Hot and Cold Cognitions, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 109, number 3, p369-394, 2015.
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • Gloeckner and Betsch. Modeling option and strategy choices with connectionist networks: Towards an integrative model of automatic and deliberate decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, Vol 3, Number 3, March 2008, pp.215-228
  • Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Dual-Processing Accounts of Reasoning, Judgment, and Social Cognition Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 59:255-278
  • Gloeckner and Witteman. Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and decision making. Thinking & Reasoning, 16:1, 1-25
  • Mercier and Sperber. Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2011) 34, 57-111
  • Hoey, MacKinnon and Schroeder Denotative and connotative management of uncertainty: A computational dual-process model. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 2, March, 2021

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• September 26th, 2024 No class

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• Oct 3rd, 2024 Lecture V: Psychological Theories (I: Appraisal) Readings:
  • Clark Elliott Hunting for the Holy Grail with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Actors SIGART Bulletin, Vol 9 (1), pp.20-28, June 1998 (OCC Model) (preprint).
  • Jonathan Gratch and Stacy J. Marsella A domain independent framework for modeling emotion Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 5, pp.269-306, 2004
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • Clark Elliott Hunting for the Holy Grail with Emotionally Intelligent Virtual Actors SIGART Bulletin, Vol 9 (1), pp.20-28, June 1998 (OCC Model) (published).
  • OCC analysis of Steamboat Willy

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• Oct 8th, 2024 Lecture VI: Psychological Theories (III: Dimensional)
  Readings:
  • James A. Russell Core Affect and the Psychological Construction of Emotion. Psychological Review, Vol 110 (1), pp145-172, 2003.
  • Christian Becker-Asano and Ipke Wachsmuth Affective computing with primary and secondary emotions in a virtual human Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Vol 20(1), pp. 32-49, 2010
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • Johnny R.J. Fontaine, Klaus R. Scherer, Etienne B. Roesch, and Phoebe C. Ellsworth. The World of Emotions is not Two-Dimensional. Psychological Science December 2007 18: 1050-1057.
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett Are Emotions Natural Kinds? Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2006;1(1):28-58. DOI

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• Oct 10th, 2024 Invited Talk: Seth Winward (Psychology)
  Readings:
  • Gazzaniga, Psychological Science, Chapter 10
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides
  • Banich, Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Chapter 13

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• Oct 15,17, 2024 NO CLASS: University Closed

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• Oct 22nd, 2024 Lecture VIII: Signals, Facial Expressions, Gestures Readings:
  • Picard. Affective Computing Chapters 5 and Chapter 6
  • Alan J. Fridlund. The new ethology of human facial expressions in James A. Russell and Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols The Psychology of Facial Expression, Chapt. 5, pages 103-129, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • Allan J. Fridlund and Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols What does facial expression mean? in James A. Russell and Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols The Psychology of Facial Expression, Chapt. 1, pages 3-30, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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• October 24th, 2024 Invited Talk: Matthew Silk (Philosophy)
  Readings:
  • Opacity, Transparency, and the Ethics of Affective Computing, Kumar et al., Vol 15, issue 1. local copy
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides

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• Oct 29th, 2024 Lecture IX: Affect Control Theory
  Readings:
  • Dawn T Robinson, Lynn Smith Lovin and Allison K. Wisecup Affect Control Theory book chapter
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides (2024)
  • watch the first two videos by Tobias Schroeder here
  • Jesse Hoey and Tobias Schroeder. Denotative and connotative management of uncertainty: A computational dual-process model. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 2, March, 2021.

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• Oct 31st, 2024 Invited Talk: Sam Johnson (Psychology)
  Readings:
  • Moral Emotions Jonathan Haidt (in Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford 2003)
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides

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• Nov 5th, 2024 Lecture X: Appraisal and RL
  Readings:
  • Modeling Cognitive-Affective Processes with Appraisal and Reinforcement Learning Jiayi Zhang, Joost Broekens, and Jussi Jokinen. ArXiv (2024).
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides

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• Nov 7th, 2024 Invited Talk: Annika Hillebrandt(Psychology)
  Readings:
  • The Social Effects of Emotions Van Kleef and Cote, Annual Review of Psychology, 2022
  Other Material:
  • lecture slides

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• Nov 12th, 2024 Invited Talk: Roxane Itier(Psychology)
  Readings:
  • Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review Manuel G. Calvo & Lauri Nummenmaa COGNITION AND EMOTION, 2016 Vol. 30, No. 6, 1081-1106, DOI
  Other Material:
  • slides

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• Nov 14th, 2024 Student presentations
  • Isaac Joffee
  • Mark Chen will discuss Humans or LLMs as the Judge? A Study on Judgement Bias
  • Carolyn Wang

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• Nov 19th, 2024 Invited Talk: Clara Colombetto (Psychology)
  Readings:
  • Evolutionary and Neural Bases of the Sense of Animacy Elena Lorenzi and Giorgio Vallortigara, 2021
  Other Material:
  • TBA

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• Nov 21st, 2024 Student presentations
  1. Prashanth Arun
  2. Aakanksha Khandwaha
  3. Thomas Driscoll
  4. Ching-Ting Tsai
  5. Mahmoud Khalaf

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• Nov 26th, 2024 Student presentations
  1. Hanna Dodd
  2. Selena Zhang
  3. Shriya Vaagdevi Chikati
  4. Zahra Manochehri
  5. Neil Fernandes

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• Nov 28th, 2024 Student presentations
  1. Anchit Mishra
  2. Matthew Hough
  3. Yuzhe He
  4. Jiayun Zhu
  5. Cara Li

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• Dec 3rd, 2024 Student presentations
  1. Delaram M.
  2. Hussein Barakat
  3. Felicia Feng
  4. Abdulrahman Diaa
  5. Bella Chen

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