Principles and Applications of Socio-Cognitive and Affective Computing (Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics)

Recent advances in socio-cognitive and affective computing require further study as countless benefits and opportunities have emerged from these innovative technologies that may be useful in a number of contexts throughout daily life. In order to ensure these technologies are appropriately utilized across sectors, the challenges and strategies for adoption as well as potential uses must be thoroughly considered.

Principles and Applications of Socio-Cognitive and Affective Computing discusses several aspects of affective interactions and concepts in affective computing, the fundamentals of emotions, and emerging research and exciting techniques for bridging the emotional disparity between humans and machines, all within the context of interactions. The book also considers problem and solution guidelines emerging in cognitive computing, thus summarizing the roadmap of current machine computational intelligence techniques for affective computing. Covering a range of topics such as social interaction, robotics, and virtual reality, this reference work is crucial for scientists, engineers, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

S. Geetha received the B.E., from the Madurai Kamaraj University, M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, in 2000, 2004 and 2011 respectively. She has 14+ years of teaching experience. Currently, she is a professor at School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT-University, Chennai Campus. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed IEEE International Conferences and refereed Journals. She joins the review committee for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Springer Multimedia Tools and Security, Elsevier – Information Sciences. She was an editor for the Indian Conference proceedings of ICCIIS 2007 and RISES-2013. Her research interests include multimedia security, intrusion detection systems, machine learning paradigms and information forensics. She is a recipient of University Rank and Academic Topper Award in B.E. and M.E. in 2000 and 2004 respectively. She is also a pride recipient of the “Best Academic Researcher Award 2013” of ASDF Global Awards.

Karthika Renuka D is Professor in Department of Information Technology in PSG College of Technology. Her professional career of 18 years has been with PSG College of Technology since 2004. She is an Associate Dean (Students Welfare) and convenor for Students Welfare Committee in PSG College of Technology. She is a recipient of Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM)-Women Overseas Fellowship program supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India and implemented by the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Wright State University, Ohio, USA. Her area of specializations includes Data Mining, Evolutionary Algorithms, Soft Computing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Affective Computing, Computer Vision. She has Organized an International Conference on Innovations in Computing Techniques Jan 22- 24, 2015 (ICICT2015) and National Conference on “Information Processing and Remote Computing” 27th and 28th February 2014 (NCIPRC 2014). Reviewer for Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, Wiley Book chapter, Springer Book Chapters on "Knowledge Computing and its Applications". She is currently guiding 8 research scholars for their Ph.D under Anna University. She has published several papers in reputed National and International journals and conferences.

Asnath Victy Phamila Y holds M.E and Ph.D degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, India. Her research area includes Image Processing, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Wireless Sensor Networks and Network Security. She has around 17 years of academic and 3 years of industry experience. She has published around 40 research papers and she also serves as reviewer in reputed journals.

Karthikeyan N holds M.E and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University Chennai, India. His research area includes Distributed computing, Medical Informatics and IoT. He is having 20 years of experience in academic. He has published 15 research papers in reputed journals. 6 scholars are doing research under his supervision.