Emotional AI

Andrew McStay is Professor of Digital Life at Bangor University, UK. His most recent book, Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media, examines the impact of technologies that make use of data about affective and emotional life. Current projects include study of emotional AI, children and parents, and (separately) cross-cultural analysis of emotional AI in UK and Japan. Non-academic work includes IEEE membership (P7000/7014) and ongoing advising roles for start-ups, NGOs and policy bodies. He has also appeared and made submissions to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on the right to privacy in the digital age, the UK House of Lords AI Inquiry and the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport Inquiry on fake news and reality media.

Empathic media and technologies will shape future societies. This is a great book to jump-start your knowledge so you can have an educated opinion on how that future will look.

• Chapter 1 Introducing Empathic MediaChapter 2 Situating EmpathyChapter 3 Group SentimentalityChapter 4 Spectrum of Emotions: Gaming the BodyChapter 5 Leaky Emotions: The Case of Facial CodingChapter 6 Priming Voice-Based AI: I Hear YouChapter 7 Affective Witnessing: VR 2.0Chapter 8 Advertising, Retail and Creativity: Capturing the FlâneurChapter 9 Personal Technologies that Feel: Towards a Novel Form of IntimacyChapter 10 Empathic CitiesChapter 11 Politics of Feeling Machines: Debating De-Identification and DignityChapter 12 Conclusion: Dignity, Ethics, Norms, Policies and PracticesAppendicesReferences