Affective interaction and affective computing-past, present and future

HCI researchers recognize affect and emotion as fundamental parts of human experience however conceptualizing emotions as ineffable, embodied, situated, or culturally bound does not fit within some of the dominant paradigm of Affective computing and emotion AI research focused mostly on recognition and classification of basic emotions. An alternative term, Affective Interaction, has emerged to bring together a growing body of research which treats emotion and affect within HCI in similar ways. This workshop brings the research community together to examine various perspectives on affect, and specifically contrast Affective Interaction with Affective Computing. The aim is to discuss opportunities and limitations associated with each perspective, reconcile with advances in the science of emotion, and to speculate on future research directions. We believe that bringing together HCI researchers around Affective Interaction is vitally important because the broad reach of Affective Computing techniques may be obscuring advances in emotion research that show evidence that emotion defies easy categories and is culturally situated.