Visual and multimodal analysis of human spontaneous behaviour: Introduction to the Special Issue

摘要

Widely anticipated in HCI is that computing will move to the background, weaving itself into the fabric of our everyday living and projecting the human user into the foreground. To realize this goal, next-generation computing (a.k.a. pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, and human computing) will need to develop human-centered user interfaces that respond readily to naturally occurring, multimodal, human communication. These interfaces will need the capacity to perceive, understand, and respond appropriately to human intentions and cognitive-emotional states as communicated by social and affective signals.