CS 886: Affective Computing

Schedule (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. All lectures will be recorded by me at home and put on this playlist, and in-class lectures will be posted on microsoftstream.com which you may need to log into to access.

September 7th, 2021 No class

September 9th, 2021 Lecture 1: General Introduction
- slides
- Video introduction
- In class video (may need to sign in)

Sept. 14th, 2021 Lecture I: What is emotion?
Readings: (none)
Other Material:
- lecture slides
- Lecture 1 - part a
- Lecture 1 - part b
- Lecture 1 - part c

Sept 16th, 2021 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
- Lecture 2 - part a
- Lecture 2 - part b
- Lecture 2 - part c

Sept 21st, 2021 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
- Lecture 3 - part a
- Lecture 3 - part b

Sept 23rd, 2021 Online open discussion
Sept 28th, 2021 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
- Lecture 4 - part a
- Lecture 4 - part b
- Lecture 4 - part c
- 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, 57â111

Sept 30th, 2021 Online open discussion
October 5th, 2021 Invited Lecture (Shehroz Khan: Privacy and Emotions in Intelligent Sensing)
Readings:
- Affect-driven Engagement Measurement from Videos. Ali Abedi and Shehroz Khan. Paper under review
Other Material:
- Shehroz Khan et al. Agitation Detection in People Living with Dementia using Multimodal Sensors 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) PDF
- Nogas, Khan and Mihailidis. DeepFall: Non-Invasive Fall Detection with Deep Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Autoencoders Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research (2020) 4:50-70 PDF

Oct 7th, 2021 Online open discussion

Oct 12,14, 2021 NO CLASS: University Closed

Oct 19th, 2021 Lecture V: Psychological Theories (I: Appraisal) Readings:
- 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
- Lecture 5 - part a
- Lecture 5 - part b
- Lecture 5 - part c
- Lecture 5 - part d

Oct 21st, 2021 Online open discussion
Oct 26th, 2021 Lecture VI: Psychological Theories (II: Appraisal Continued) 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).
Other Material:
- lecture slides
- 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).
- Lecture 6 - part a
- OCC analysis of Steamboat Willy
- Lecture 6 - part b

October 28th, 2021 Invited Lecture (Luke Stark - History and Ethics of Emotion AI)
Readings:
- Dror, Otniel E. Counting the Affects: Discoursing in Numbers. Social Research 68, no. 2 (July 30, 2001): 357–78.
- Leys, Ruth. The Turn to Affect: A Critique. Critical Inquiry 37, no. 3 (July 17, 2015): 434–72. doi:10.1086/659353
Other Material:
- AI Phrenology
- Logical Errors in the movie "The Social Dilemma"
- The Ethics of Emotion in AI Systemes Luke Stark and Jesse Hoey, FaCCT* 2021

Nov 2nd, 2021 Lecture VII: 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
- 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
- Lecture 7 - part a
- Lecture 7 - part b
- Lecture 7 - part c

Nov 4th, 2021 Online open discussion
Nov 9th, 2021 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
- 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.
- Lecture 8 - part a
- Lecture 8 - part b
- Lecture 8 - part c

Nov 11th, 2021 Trust-ya game playing
Readings:
- Jerry Huang, Joshua D.A. Jung, Neil Budnarain, Benn McGregor and Jesse Hoey Trust-ya: design of a multiplayer game for the study of small group processes. IEEE Conference on Games, Copenhagen, 2021. official paper link
Nov 16th, 2021 Lecture IX: Affect Control Theory
Readings:
- Dawn T Robinson, Lynn Smith Lovin and Allison K. Wisecup Affect Control Theory book chapter
Other Material:
- watch the first two videos by Tobias Schroeder here

Nov 18th, 2021 Online open discussion
Nov 23rd, 2021 Lecture X: Bayesian Affect Control Theory
Readings:
- Jesse Hoey and Tobias Schroeder. Denotative and connotative management of uncertainty: A computational dual-process model. Judgment and Decision Making, 16, 2, March, 2021.
Other Material:
- Watch the talk I gave at the Vector Institute in October 2018.
- Neil J. MacKinnon and Jesse Hoey. Operationalizing the Relation Between Affect and Cognition With the Somatic Transform. Emotion Review, 2021
- Jesse Hoey. Freedom and Equality as Uncertainty in Groups Entropy, 23, 1384, 2021.
- watch the last three videos here. You can skip the first BayesACT video (lecture 3) if you know POMDPs.

Nov 25th, 2021 Student presentations posted
Nov 30th, 2021 Student presentations posted

Dec 2nd, 2021 Online open discussion

Dec 7th, 2021 Final online discussion/office hour

Fall 2021
CS 886: Affective Computing

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Fall 2021 CS 886: Affective Computing

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Fall 2021
CS 886: Affective Computing