Shifting Relational Paradigms for Affective Computing: Affective Resonance, Vitality Affects, and Vocal Interaction Fields
Affective computing has largely followed an individual-state paradigm, extracting discrete emotion labels or arousal/valence from isolated speakers. We argue this framing is incomplete for interaction. Drawing on affective resonance and vitality-contour accounts, we propose a relational framework in which the primary u...