Emotions in the Loop: A Survey of Affective Computing for Emotional Support
Karishma Hegde, Hemadri Jayalath

TL;DR
This survey reviews recent advances in affective computing, focusing on emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and personalized AI across applications like chatbots, mental health, and safety, highlighting methodologies, datasets, and ethical issues.
Contribution
It categorizes recent research in affective computing into four domains, analyzing methodologies, datasets, and identifying key challenges and future directions.
Findings
Multimodal and large language models enhance emotion recognition.
Datasets' modality, scale, and diversity significantly impact model performance.
Ethical considerations are crucial for safe and empathetic affective AI applications.
Abstract
In a world where technology is increasingly embedded in our everyday experiences, systems that sense and respond to human emotions are elevating digital interaction. At the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, affective computing is emerging with innovative solutions where machines are humanized by enabling them to process and respond to user emotions. This survey paper explores recent research contributions in affective computing applications in the area of emotion recognition, sentiment analysis and personality assignment developed using approaches like large language models (LLMs), multimodal techniques, and personalized AI systems. We analyze the key contributions and innovative methodologies applied by the selected research papers by categorizing them into four domains: AI chatbot applications, multimodal input systems, mental health and therapy…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMental Health Research Topics · Emotion and Mood Recognition
