Affective tutoring systems: Enhancing e-learning with the emotional awareness of a human tutor

This paper introduces the field of affective computing, and the benefits that can be realized by enhancing e-learning applications with the ability to detect and respond to emotions experienced by the learner. Affective computing has potential benefits for all areas of computing where the computer r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thompson, Nik, McGill, T.
Format: Journal Article
Published: I G I Global 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6247