A Hybrid Approach for Emotion Detection in Support of Affective Interaction

Affective interaction is a new emerging area of interest for interaction designers. This research explores the potential of our hybrid approach that relies on both, lexical and machine learning techniques for detection of Ekman's six emotional categories in user's text. The initial results of the performance evaluation of the proposed hybrid approach are encouraging and comparable to related research. A demonstrative mobile application that employs the proposed approach was developed to engage the users in a dialogue that solicits their reflections on various daily events and provides appropriate affective responses.