Shell for Affective User Modelling

This document constitutes Deliverable D3.2 of the IST Project SAFIRA, on the Shell for affective user modelling. It presents first an analysis of the different methods for affective user modelling and mechanisms by which emotions can be ascribed to a user through the analysis of his/her behaviour. In particular we investigate the current state-of-the-art in affective elements that need to be part of the user model and identify the salient components that are necessary for delivering affective modes of interaction between system and user. Then, the document focuses on the specification and first prototype of affective user modelling, which will be integrated in the SAFIRA toolkit and applied in at least one of the demonstrators. In the final part of the deliverable we will also provide a description on how affective user modelling will be used in two of our demonstrators (FantasyA and James the Butler).