Emotions are a fundamental part of humans intelligence.
Emotional skills, especially the ability to recognize and express emotions, are essential for natural communication between humans, and until recently, have been absent from the computer side of the human-computer interaction. Speakers from industry will discuss current applications of affective computing, including synthesizing facial expressions in the entertainment industry, increasing the appeal of the pet robots through emotion recognition and synthesis, and measuring galvanic skin response through the mouse to determine user frustration. This will be a one day workshop. The speakers will be encouraged to talk about challenges and controversial topics both in their prepared talks and in the ensuing discussions. Since one of the goals of the workshop is to facilitate communication between researchers in different subfields, ample time will be given to questions.