Affective computing and HCI

Emotion is an important factor in human life which plays important role in daily tasks like communication, learning, decision making, cognition, perception etc. Since emotion was not easy to interpret and hard to measure, technologists and designers have totally ignored it and often ended up with bad and frustrating design and technology. Advancement of technology enables us to understand the concept of emotion and its exposure in human interaction so that we can balance affects and technology. Since the birth of computer it has seen number of developments in order to make it more users friendly and compact. It has come a long way from calculator to computer and finally took shape of smart computer. But still it lacks of emotional intelligence, response of person’s anger, frustration, happiness etc. Affective computing is a forward step in the direction of filling this gap.