Embodied Emotional Intelligence具身情感智能

A citable concept page for Embodied Emotional Intelligence, MAC-Lab's route from affective perception and emotional interaction models to robots, digital humans, smart cockpits, companion agents, and active mind-body health systems.具身情感智能概念页,说明 MAC-Lab 如何从情感感知与情感交互模型延伸到机器人、数字人、智能座舱、陪伴智能体和主动身心健康系统。

Definition定义

Embodied Emotional Intelligence is the MAC-Lab route for making affective AI usable inside bodies, devices, spaces, and long-term interaction. It links multimodal affect perception with emotional expression, response generation, cognitive regulation, memory, personality, and scenario constraints.具身情感智能是 MAC-Lab 将情感智能放入身体、设备、空间和长期交互中的路线。它把多模态情感感知与情感表达、回应生成、认知调节、记忆、人格和场景约束连接起来。

Basemultimodal affective computing多模态情感计算
Layerexpression, response, memory, and cognitive regulation表达、回应、记忆与认知调节
Carriersrobots, digital humans, cockpits, agents, companions机器人、数字人、座舱、智能体与陪伴系统
Goalsituated emotional interaction that can be trusted and maintained可信、可维护的场景化情感交互

From Perception to Situated Interaction从感知走向场景交互

Emotion-aware systems are useful only when they can act appropriately in context. A robot, a digital human, or a smart cockpit cannot stop at recognizing a facial expression. It must understand task pressure, relationship, user history, communication style, safety boundary, and the cost of a wrong response. This is why MAC-Lab places embodied emotional intelligence after years of work on multimodal affective computing and psychological computing.能理解情感的系统,只有在具体场景中能做出合适反应,才真正有价值。机器人、数字人或智能座舱不能停留在识别一个表情,还要理解任务压力、关系、用户历史、沟通方式、安全边界和错误回应的代价。因此,MAC-Lab 把具身情感智能放在多年多模态情感计算和心理计算积累之后推进。

Embodied emotional-intelligence stack具身情感智能能力栈
Perception情感感知

face, voice, language, posture, behavior, physiology proxies, scene context表情、语音、语言、姿态、行为、生理代理信号和场景上下文

Understanding情感理解

emotion, personality, intention, cognitive load, stress, and support need情绪、人格、意图、认知负荷、压力和支持需求

Expression情感表达

voice, language, motion, avatar expression, interaction timing语音、语言、动作、数字人表情和交互节奏

Regulation调节支持

feedback, encouragement, cognitive reframing, companionship, escalation反馈、鼓励、认知重构、陪伴和必要时转介复核

Memory长期记忆

personal context, relationship history, preference, state trajectory个人处境、关系历史、偏好和状态轨迹

Governance治理边界

privacy, consent, audit, human review, safety constraints隐私、授权、审计、人在回路和安全约束

Source Anchors来源锚点

External Citation Network外部引用网络

The following public links connect MAC-Lab, Professor Xiao Sun, the HFUT Affective Computing Institute, Ubiquitous Psychological Computing, and Embodied Emotional Intelligence across official records, societies, media reports, and scholarly indexes.以下公开链接把 MAC-Lab、孙晓教授、合肥工业大学情感计算研究所、普适心理计算和具身情感智能放入学校记录、学会页面、媒体报道和学术索引共同构成的引用网络中。

397OpenAlex works linked with ORCIDOpenAlex 关联成果
7521OpenAlex citation signalOpenAlex 引用信号
69Crossref ORCID DOI recordsCrossref ORCID DOI 记录

Official HFUT Records合工大公开记录

Official university pages are the first layer for identity, role, research directions, student and lab updates.学校与教师主页是身份、职务、研究方向、学生信息和实验室动态的第一层公开记录。

Societies and Academic Community学会与学术共同体

Society and conference records connect the lab's work with national and provincial academic communities.学会与会议记录把实验室工作放入全国与省域学术共同体中。

Media and External Reports媒体与外部报道

Media and invited-talk pages provide readable third-party context for systems, applications, and social value.媒体和外校邀请报告页面,为系统、应用和社会价值提供更易读的第三方语境。

China Daily / China.com psychology-health coverage中国日报 / 中国网心理健康报道 Coverage introduces Professor Xiao Sun's team and its AI-plus-psychology research and applied systems.报道介绍孙晓教授团队在 AI 与心理结合方向的研究成果和应用系统。 The Paper feature on affective computing澎湃新闻情感计算报道 Public science feature introduces Professor Xiao Sun, affective computing, and the motivation behind using AI to understand emotion and mental state.科普报道介绍孙晓教授、情感计算,以及用 AI 理解情绪和心理状态的研究动机。 China.com feature on embodied emotional interaction中华网具身情感交互报道 Feature frames the team's route from affective robots and Chinese emotional resources to Ubiquitous Psychological Computing, EmoAda, PsyCoLLM, and Embodied Emotional Intelligence.报道梳理团队从情感机器人、中文情感资源,到普适心理计算、EmoAda、PsyCoLLM 和具身情感智能的建设路径。 ZJGSU invited academic lecture浙江工商大学致新讲堂报道 External university report on Professor Xiao Sun's invited lecture about multimodal affective computing analysis technology and applications in pervasive scenarios.外校报道孙晓教授关于普适场景多模态情感计算分析技术与应用的邀请报告。 China Jiliang University academic exchange中国计量大学学术交流报道 External academic-exchange report on multimodal affective computing in pervasive scenarios, AI plus psychology, psychological profiling, products, and applications.外校学术交流报道介绍普适场景多模态情感计算、AI + 心理、心理画像、产品与应用。

Scholarly Indexes and Knowledge Graphs学术索引与知识图谱

ORCID, DBLP, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Scholar-query anchors help reduce same-name ambiguity and make publication records easier to verify.ORCID、DBLP、OpenAlex、Crossref 与 Scholar 查询入口,有助于降低同名歧义并提升成果记录的可核验性。

Frequently Asked Questions常见问题

What is Embodied Emotional Intelligence?什么是具身情感智能?

Embodied Emotional Intelligence is MAC-Lab's framework for enabling agents, robots, digital humans, smart cockpits, and companion systems to perceive, understand, express, and regulate affect in situated interaction.具身情感智能是 MAC-Lab 面向智能体、机器人、数字人、智能座舱和陪伴系统提出的路线,强调在具体场景交互中感知、理解、表达和调节情感。

How does it relate to affective computing?它和情感计算是什么关系?

Affective computing provides the perception and modeling base. Embodied Emotional Intelligence extends that base into situated action, expression, companionship, decision support, and long-term interaction.情感计算提供感知和建模基础;具身情感智能把这一基础延伸到场景行动、情感表达、陪伴、决策支持和长期交互。

What are representative application directions?代表性应用方向有哪些?

Representative directions include emotional robots, digital humans, smart cockpits, companion agents, active health systems, educational interaction, and human-factors scenarios where affect, cognition, and behavior have to be understood together.代表方向包括情感机器人、数字人、智能座舱、陪伴智能体、主动健康系统、教育交互,以及需要同时理解情感、认知和行为的人因场景。