Towards context based affective computing introduction to the third international CBAR 2015 workshop

Affect communication and recognition is influenced by a number of contextual, social, and psychological factors. Personality and natural expressiveness of the individual, previous experiences, the ongoing task, and pre-existing relationships with the people involved helps individuals interpret and respond to social interactions. An important related issue to address in automatic affect recognition is how to take into account the contextual information and its influence on affect communication and recognition. Audiovisual indicators of affect need to be merged with contextual information to create a context-sensitive multimodal system for an objective measurement of affect.