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Affective Computing is a book about how to imbue computers with emotion. The author's thesis is that emotion can have a positive effect on decision-making. This book reviews the literature on theories of emotion and the impact of emotion on decision making. Picard notes that"emoticons", those little faces made of text characters, are already used to help people understand the meaning of text and that new technologies will soon allow computers to express emotion. Picard describes work by Daniel Goleman who wrote the book Emotional Intelligence, Patti Maes, a strong voice for agent technology, Reeves and Nass, authors of the Media Equation, and other prominent psychologists delving into the importance of emotion in human-human and human-computer interactions.
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