Over his PhD, Zhuang published 8 first-authored papers: 4 journal articles, 1 full conference paper, and 3 short papers — an incredible output.
Congratulations, Zhuang — we can't wait to see what's next! 🚀
#PhDLife #Research #MixedReality #AffectiveComputing [2/2]
Promotional graphic for AlpCHI 2026 highlighting a conference paper session. The background shows a muted, wintry alpine landscape with two people walking across a snowy, flat terrain with rugged snow-covered mountains behind them. The AlpCHI 2026 mountain logo appears in the top right corner. White text reads: 'Papers #2 – Affective, Reflective, and Mental Health Experiences with Technology.' At the bottom, a call to action reads: 'Learn more on our website: alpchi.org/programme.'
🎉 We're proud to introduce the papers of our second paper session "Affective, Reflective, and Mental Health Experiences with Technology" at AlpCHI 2026!
👉 Full programme & paper details: alpchi.org/programme
#AlpCHI2026 #HCI #MentalHealth #AffectiveComputing
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🧠 fNIRS-BCI in action. Real people. Real signals.
What does #fNIRS #BCI look like in practice?
🟡 Ruotsalo et al. monitored affective responses in crowds, enabling large-scale annotation of shared experiences. #AffectiveComputing
New working paper: Narrative-Bound Intelligence proposes a structural alternative to instruction-centric AI, modeling human–AI interaction through narrative-bound constraints and Symbolic Persona Coding (SPC).
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#AIAlignment #InteractionDesign #HybridSystems #AffectiveComputing
Next year's #ICMI has the central theme of context and cultural awareness for multimodal interaction.
Tutorial topic suggestions are now welcome - a great opportunity to help shape the programme! See below 👀
#Multimodal #Interaction #AffectiveComputing #HCI #HBU
A brief structural note: many “AI resonance” claims rely on phenomenology rather than mechanism. The attached analysis contrasts narrative interpretation with latent-topology based diagnostics, highlighting why only the latter is operationally meaningful.
#AIEthics #AIAlignment #AffectiveComputing
Check out our latest issue in @theinnovation.bsky.social!!! Volume 6, Issue 12 is now online!
www.cell.com/the-innovati...
#biodiversity #ArtificialInteligence #Materials #largelanguagemodel #affectivecomputing #Neuroscience #publichealth #DeepSeek #drugdiscovery #herbalmedicines #carbonneutral
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Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing: Musical structures for increasing transparency in emotional computation #AffectiveComputing #Music #Research https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ada-research/27/
The Damasian Mind, Zone 2, and the Architecture of Sustained Attention
#Decolonial
#Neuroscience
#fNIRS #NIRS
#NIRSEEG #SfN
#EEG #ERP
#SustainedAttention
#AttentionalStates
#TensionalSelf
#Embodiment
#EmbodiedCognition
#AffectiveComputing
brainsupport.co/blog/the-dam...
When a robot learned to think, it didn’t become smarter — it became human. The story of how emotional AI is teaching machines empathy, humor, and heart.
#AI #EmotionalIntelligence #AffectiveComputing #FutureOfWork
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#affectivecomputing #AIchatbotsmentalhealth #AIinPTSDtherapy #behavioralhealth #CBT #Chatbots #cliniciandecisionsupport #CPT #digitalphenotyping #digitaltherapeutics #EMDR #mentalhealthtechnology #mentalhealthwearables #NLPintherapy #Personalizedmedicine
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🌊 Just out on #cscw2025!
By connecting facial emotion recognition😄with socially shared regulation💬, we reveal how collaborative emotion dynamics unfold in real time.
👉 Read here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#AffectiveComputing #Teamwork #MedicalEducation #SocioEmotionalAI #CSCW
Survey of Valence‑Arousal Datasets Advances Affective Computing
The review surveys 25 publicly available valence‑arousal datasets collected from 2008‑2024, with sizes from a few hundred to several thousand annotated clips. Read more: getnews.me/survey-of-valence-arousa... #affectivecomputing #valencearousal #datasets
Full-Body AI Emotion Interface Explores Collaborative Feeling
Installation using MoveNet pose‑estimation lets participants teach AI emotion labels and co‑create a shared map. Presented at ACM Multimedia 2025. Read more: getnews.me/full-body-ai-emotion-int... #affectivecomputing #multimedia2025 #movenet
📚 NEW on arXiv: "Affective Computing and Emotional Data"
Key findings:
AI collects emotional data, implicitly classifies it as sensitive.
Cultural biases in emotion recognition and multidimensional governance.
Full paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20153
#AI #Privacy #AffectiveComputing #Ethics
📢 Call for Participation: ACII 2025 🌏
13th Int’l Conf. on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction
🗓 8–11 Oct 2025 | Canberra, Australia
✨ Theme: Socially Responsible Affective Computing
Program: acii-conf.net/2025/wp-cont...
Website: 🔗 acii-conf.net/2025
#ACII2025 #AffectiveComputing #AI
How Audio Effects Influence Emotion Using AI Foundation Models
The study submitted on 18 Sep 2025 found longer reverb decay boosts calmness and spaciousness, while distortion raises arousal and perceived aggression. Read more: getnews.me/how-audio-effects-influe... #audioeffects #affectivecomputing #foundationmodels
Esta semana, e invitado por @vcnocito.bsky.social participo por segunda vez en el podcast 'Bits & Brains' en el episodio "Buscando AMISTAD y COMPRENSIÓN en las máquinas" open.spotify.com/episode/3Nif... #emociones #amistad #MMI #ManMachineInterface #HRI #HumanRobotInteraction #AffectiveComputing
🎉 Shakyani Jayasiriwardene (PhD student), Anusha Withana, & Zhanna Sarsenbayeva's paper "More Than Words: The Impact of Voice Assistant Personality Traits on Failure Mitigation" has been accepted at IMWUT (UbiComp)!
🔗 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI #AffectiveComputing #VoiceAssistants #AI
🏛️ Can EEG decode your emotional response to architecture?
Using our Enobio (www.neuroelectrics.com/products/res...), CNN-LSTM models trained on ERP features (N100–LPP) predicted spatial preferences.
👏 Kudos to the team!
#EEG #Neuroarchitecture #AI #AffectiveComputing
Melodies helped keep a photonic quantum computer entangled—a 2016 paper I co-authored. I proposed UVC and made affective computations audible. See link below. #quantum #musictech #AffectiveComputing
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ada-research/30/
Analysis of a Multi-Layered Cognitive Scaffolding in Advanced Language Models:A Formal Mechanism Review
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zenodo.org/records/1689...
#MechanismReview #MultiLayered #Resilience #AIArchitecture #SemanticContinuity #AIResearch #FormalAnalysis #AffectiveComputing #AIEthics #ModelResets
#DeepLearning
Can Algorithms Truly Read Your Feelings? Why Big Tech is Backing Away From Emotion AI
#AIEmotionRecognition #AffectiveComputing #AIEthics #FacialRecognition #DataPrivacy #AlgorithmicBias #FactRage #FactRageNews
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The paper" #Emotion #Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction: Effects on Communication Styles and #Persuasion" has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on #AffectiveComputing (IF 9.8 ) and the early version is now available in IEEE Xplore doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TAFF...
#HRI #socialrobots
⚡ Key finding: Music made by AI with complex prompts not only increased emotional response, but also cognitive load.
More blinking, more skin changes = more mental effort.
AI music isn’t just emotional. It’s intense.
#UX #AffectiveComputing #CreativeAI
Excited to share that our comprehensive survey on recognition models for 12 distinct positive emotions has been published in #IEEEAccess!
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
#AffectiveComputing
#EmotionRecognition
#PositivePsychology
#HCI
📣 Calling all researchers in physiological signal processing, affective computing, and machine learning!
Join the #AI4Pain 2025 Grand Challenge, part of the AAP Workshop at ICMI 2025 @AcmIcmi (13–17 Oct, Canberra 🇦🇺).
#ICMI2025 #PainResearch #AffectiveComputing
Can buildings respond to how we feel? 🧠🏙️
This study used our #Enobio to collect EEG data for training an AI model that recognizes emotions in real time inside VR-designed spaces.
📄 doi.org/10.3390/app1...
#EEG #AIinArchitecture #Neuroarchitecture #AffectiveComputing
