Affectosphere Group is starting as a small team. Members, visiting researchers, and collaborators will be listed here as they join.
Principal Investigator
Graduate School, Kansai University / Center for Data Science and AI Innovation, Shiga University / Japan Safety Society Research Center
Works on giving AI emotional intelligence, building perception, representation, reasoning, generation, interaction and social placement into one continuous system he calls Computational Affective Intelligence (CAI). Founder of the Affectosphere Group. The horizon is an AI endowed with an EQ that surpasses humans.
Member
National Institute of Technology, Yuge College, Department of Information Engineering
Works on solving regional issues with Small Language Models (SLMs).
Open positions
The thin rows on the research map are exactly where we are looking for people. The empty parts are the interesting parts.
Human Affect
そもそも人は感情をどう経験し、どう食い違うのか。計算の前にある問い。
1 publications
How people actually experience emotion, and where they disagree. We are looking for someone from psychology or cognitive science to set the questions that come before the computation.
Interaction
人と AI が感情を介して往復する場をつくる。
3 publications
Designing the place where a person and an AI meet through emotion: self-reflection support, conversational interfaces, and how co-presence is even evaluated. This stage has only just started.
Representation
読み取った感情を、確率分布と不確実性のまま内部に持つ。
4 publications
Holding a read emotion as a distribution, with its uncertainty intact: Bayesian methods, calibration, soft labels.
Who we work with
Students
Undergraduate through doctoral. We pick the topic together, off the map above.
Collaborators
Psychology, cognitive science, HCI, ethics — the further your centre of gravity is from AI, the better this tends to work.
Companies
A place to deploy, and real data. We are looking for partners to work out what it takes to put CAI in front of people.