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Workshop on Transactional Emotions October 26-28, 2007 Marina del Rey, CA Overview Within both emotion and HCI/HRI research, there’s been growing interest in “transactional” affective phenomena, meaning affective behaviors and cognitions that are socially contingent on the behaviors of an interactional partner. Concepts like rapport, social resonance or “emergent” emotions presuppose an ability to rapidly detect nonverbal affective cues, make inferences about the other party’s mental state, and rapidly respond in ways that co-construct an emotional trajectory between participants. Through this process, participants can come to synchronize their behaviors, promoting social bonds, enhancing trust, and increasing communicative efficiency. But participants can desynchronize as well, accentuating differences in the power or beliefs of participants. The workshop has several aims: To strengthen the theoretical foundation for building computational systems that co-construct emotional trajectories with human participants To assess the current and future potential of sensing technology to reliably detect and classify affective nonverbal cues To discuss computational models of social cognition that can represent and reason about the evolving relationship between interaction partners To present the state-of-the-art in such transactional systems To consider methodological approaches for assessing the social consequences of such technology This workshop is hosted by the Institute for Creative Technologies. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact Workshop Coordinator Jack Mondonedo.