Chapter Five - Emotional AI: Computationally intelligent devices for education

Abstract

Nowadays, it has become more obvious how emotionally distant people are from one another. Many technical developments throughout the years have reduced our need for social skills, which inadvertently disguised the long-term decline in human interaction. Understanding and dealing with emotions is an integral part of life. Most specifically, in an educational setup, it is the significant component that helps the instructors to get connected with students. Emotional intelligence aids the teacher in gaining deeper understanding and insight of the learner. Teachers are in the highest need to know the needs of the students in order to set individual specified goals. Artificial emotional intelligence assists in recognizing and addressing emotional states. Affective computing field entirely deals in developing devices that are able to perceive, comprehend, understand, and imitate human emotions. Devices can listen to voices, gaze through facial expressions, and outlook the gestures to reflect on emotions in a way of augmented human. Global technology uses artificial intelligence to address each child's individual emotional needs in addition to enhancing pupils' academic performance while receiving homeschooling. Although emotion artificial intelligence cannot completely replace teachers, it may aid them in certain circumstances. Teachers might be able to maximize each student's learning potential with the use of emotional artificial intelligence.