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AI LLM March 24, 2026

Modelling Emotions is an Elusive Pursuit in Affective Computing

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Anders Rolighed Larsen, Sneha Das, Line Clemmensen

Abstract

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression. However, the uncertainty in such systems remains high, and the application areas are limited by categorical definitions of emotions and emotional concepts. This paper argues that categorical emotion labels obscure emotional nuance in affective computing, and therefore continuous dimensional definitions are needed to advance the field, increase application usefulness, and lower uncertainties.

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arXiv ID: 2603.23017
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: eess.AS
Published: 2026-03-24
Fetched: 2026-03-25 06:02

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