A book containing the accumulated experience and know-how of experts from industry, academia, and research in the field of emotional artificial intelligence has been published.

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has published a specialized book titled 'Emotional Artificial Intelligence: Human Understanding and Emotion Augmentation', which was planned by the Human Augmentation Lab and co-written with domestic experts.

In an era where emotional artificial intelligence is gradually becoming a part of our daily lives, it is evaluated that the outlook and implications for the importance and development direction of emotional artificial intelligence, which is in the early stages of the market in fields such as technology, service, and industry, have been presented.

This book is largely divided into four parts.

Part 1, Introduction, contains content that can help you understand emotional artificial intelligence in general.

We analyzed the current status of the growth and evolution of emotional artificial intelligence research, and examined emotional well-being using emotional artificial intelligence, potential risk factors and solutions that may arise from the use of emotional artificial intelligence, and the social impact of empathy-based emotional artificial intelligence.

Part 2, Technology, consists of technology content centered on the interaction of emotions between humans and artificial intelligence, such as recognizing human emotions and generating and expressing them.

Technologies for quantifying emotional models and social emotions, brainwave-based emotion recognition technologies, and key key technologies for developing emotional robots.was dealt with.

Part 3 of the service consists of specific service use cases utilizing emotional artificial intelligence.

It introduces domestic and international emotional AI service provision cases, major emotional AI application fields such as digital healthcare and edutech, and covers components of mobile emotional AI, data collection, and algorithm development cases.

Part 4, Industry, contains content on competitiveness, systems, and industrial activation measures for the emotional artificial intelligence industry.

We looked at trends in emotional artificial intelligence technology and its use in industry, diagnosis of domestic emotional artificial intelligence industry competitiveness and strategic response measures, and government regulation of emotional artificial intelligence and direction of industry development.

ETRI Human Augmentation Lab Principal Researcher Jeong Hyeon-tae said, “We have proactively predicted the future changes that will occur in the era of emotional artificial intelligence that understands and interacts with human emotions and behaviors. It is significant in that it covers future strategic directions from the perspective of experts in technology, services, and industry.”

ETRI President Seung-chan Bang also said, “As the emotional-based interaction between humans and artificial intelligence is further heightened, we hope that this comprehensively addresses the technological development of emotional artificial intelligence in the early market stage, as well as useful services and negative impacts, from a comprehensive perspective, and that it will serve as the foundation for establishing future response strategies for our government and companies.”

This book was co-written by 13 experts from academia, industry, and research who are actively working in the field of emotional artificial intelligence, including KAIST, Chung-Ang University, Hanyang University, Sangmyung University, Sookmyung Women's University, Seokyeong University, Korea Agency for Intelligence Information Society, Emotionist Co., Ltd., and Dsquare Co., Ltd., and was planned by the ETRI Human Augmentation Lab. It was published by Yulgok Publishing.