An Intro to Affective ComputingData Science by Sunny Srinidhi - January 7, 2020January 7, 20200 Not a lot of us have heard of Affective Computing. Most people I have spoken to about this didn't know anything about Affective Computing. So I thought, I'll just write an intro, explaining what I have understood about the discipline and hopefully, will get to learn more from the comments. So let's get started. Affecting computing is all about understanding human emotions in a human-machine interface system and responding based on those emotions. Consider this, you get into an ATM vestibule to draw some cash, but you're tensed about getting late to your date, who is already waiting for you at the restaurant. If anybody sees you in this condition at the ATM vestibule, they'll be able to easily understand that