Affective Computing

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research2025-03-15

CLARA: Building an AI That Actually Helps Teams Work Together

What if your virtual meeting had an AI facilitator that could sense when the team is struggling and step in to help? That's exactly what I built with CLARA.

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research2025-01-20

Building CoAffinity: Teaching Computers to Read the Room

I created one of the largest datasets for understanding how stressed and emotional people get during video calls. Here's why that matters for the future of remote work.

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research2024-12-15

Re-Touch: What If You Could Physically Feel Your Memories?

I built a VR system that lets you not just see your cherished memories, but actually touch and feel them-while it adapts to your emotional state in real-time.

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research2024-03-20

CAEVR: Building VR That Actually Responds to Your Emotions

What if VR experiences could sense when you're stressed, scared, or engaged-and adapt in real-time? That's exactly what we built with CAEVR.

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research2025-03-10

Haptic Empathy: Can We Feel Each Other's Emotions Through Touch?

What if you could send a hug through your phone? We studied how people create and interpret emotional touch sensations-and discovered everyone speaks a different haptic language.

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research2025-02-15

Teaching Machines to Feel: The Journey to Empathetic AI

What if your AI assistant could sense when you're frustrated before you even say it? Exploring empathetic conversational agents.

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Research Papers

ACM TOCHI2025

CLARA: AI-Mediated Facilitation for Enhancing Group Cognition and Cohesion in Remote Collaboration

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Maryam Siah Doosti, Kunal Gupta, Huidong Bai, Yun Suen Pai, Mark Billinghurst

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IEEE TAFFC2025

CoAffinity: A Multimodal Dataset for Cognitive Load and Affect Assessment in Remote Collaboration

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Kunal Gupta, Yun Suen Pai, Huidong Bai, Mark Billinghurst

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SIGGRAPH Asia2024

Re-Touch: A VR Experience for Enhancing Autobiographical Memory Recall Through Haptic and Affective Feedback

Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Yulan Ju, Danyang Peng, Giulia Barbareschi, Kouta Minamizawa, Yun Suen Pai, Mark Billinghurst

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arXiv2025

Haptic Empathy: Investigating Individual Differences in Affective Haptic Communications

Yulan Ju, Xiaru Meng, Harunobu Taguchi, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Matthias Hoppe, Hironori Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Yun Suen Pai, Kouta Minamizawa

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IEEE VRW2023

VRdoGraphy: An Empathic VR Photography Experience

Kunal Gupta, Yuewei Zhang, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Prasanth Sasikumar, Nanditha Krishna, Yun Suen Pai, Mark Billinghurst

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SIGGRAPH Asia2023

SensoryScape: Context-Aware Empathic VR Photography

Kunal Gupta, Yuewei Zhang, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Nanditha Krishna, Yun Suen Pai, Mark Billinghurst

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IJHCI2025

Empathetic Conversational Agents: Utilizing Neural and Physiological Signals for Enhanced Empathetic Interactions

Nastaran Saffaryazdi, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Kate Loveys, Elizabeth Broadbent, Mark Billinghurst

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SIGGRAPH Asia2025

Living Literature: A Collaborative VR Experience for Enhancing Shared Reading Through Affective and Generative Feedback

Haitian Liu, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Mark Billinghurst, Yun Suen Pai

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Affective Computing

Blog Posts

CLARA: Building an AI That Actually Helps Teams Work Together

Building CoAffinity: Teaching Computers to Read the Room

Re-Touch: What If You Could Physically Feel Your Memories?

CAEVR: Building VR That Actually Responds to Your Emotions

Haptic Empathy: Can We Feel Each Other's Emotions Through Touch?

Teaching Machines to Feel: The Journey to Empathetic AI

Research Papers

CLARA: AI-Mediated Facilitation for Enhancing Group Cognition and Cohesion in Remote Collaboration

CoAffinity: A Multimodal Dataset for Cognitive Load and Affect Assessment in Remote Collaboration

Re-Touch: A VR Experience for Enhancing Autobiographical Memory Recall Through Haptic and Affective Feedback

Haptic Empathy: Investigating Individual Differences in Affective Haptic Communications

VRdoGraphy: An Empathic VR Photography Experience

SensoryScape: Context-Aware Empathic VR Photography

Empathetic Conversational Agents: Utilizing Neural and Physiological Signals for Enhanced Empathetic Interactions

Living Literature: A Collaborative VR Experience for Enhancing Shared Reading Through Affective and Generative Feedback

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