Samit Bhattacharya – författare

This edited volume explores how empathy and emotional intelligence can be systematically embedded into contemporary educational technologies to create more human-centered, inclusive, and effective learning environments. The book brings together theoretical foundations, design principles, and technological frameworks that position emotions as a core element of digital, blended, and immersive learning systems. It examines how learner emotions, attention, engagement, and affective states can be modeled, sensed, and meaningfully integrated into learning technologies through interdisciplinary perspectives spanning education, psychology, human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. The chapters present empirical studies, design methodologies, and system implementations that demonstrate empathy-driven approaches in real educational contexts. Topics include affective computing in education, emotionally intelligent instructional design, sensitive and adaptive learning systems, learner behavior and engagement analytics, extended reality–based learning experiences, and human-centered design frameworks. Several contributions highlight AI-enabled personalization, emotion-aware feedback mechanisms, and ethically grounded approaches to user modeling and intelligent learning environments. Collectively, the book serves as a practical and forward-looking resource for educators, researchers, designers, and technology developers seeking to move beyond efficiency-driven educational technologies toward systems that genuinely support both cognitive growth and emotional well-being in digitally mediated learning.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2016, held in Pilani, India, in December 2016. The 22 regular papers and 3 abstracts of invited talks included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 initial submissions. They deal with intelligent interfaces; brain machine interaction; HCI applications and technology; and interface and systems.