This paper reviews and integrates research that would be necessary to develop an AIED system able to detect and then appropriately react to an affective state of a learner. It addresses the nature of affect, methods to automatically detect affect, as well as the interplay between affect and learning-related cognition, and affective strategies that promote quality learning. Keywords. Affect detection, affect and learning, affect–related strategies.
Emmanuel G. Blanchard, Boris Volfson, Yuan-Jin Hon