Professor Rosalind Picard
Professor Justine Cassell
Dr. Barry Kort  Dr. Rob Reilly
To build a computerized Learning Companion that is sensitive to
the affective aspects of learning and works with the child to
facilitate the child's own efforts at learning.
Timothy Bickmore  Ashish Kapoor  Selene Mota
Elisabeth Sylvan  Kimiko Ryokai  Catherine Vaucelle
MIT Media Laboratory
Contact Professor Picard: [email protected]
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research existing learning theories
 examine impact of affective strategies
 evolve new theories of emotions and learning
• Relationship with the Child
•coach, peer, tutor, evaluator
• Detecting the Cognitive State
•accurately detecting affect and mapping it to
cognitive process
• Building an Interaction
•feedback to child based on cognitive state
Gesture and Narrative Language Group Affective Computing Group
Contact Professor Picard: [email protected]
Relationship with the Child
• coach, peer, tutor, evaluator
Detecting the Cognitive State
• accurately detecting affect
• mapping affect to cognitive process
Building an Interaction
• provide feedback to child based on cognitive state
Gesture and Narrative Language Group Affective Computing Group