An affective application for tackling patient depression

This paper is a result of a working group at the 3rd Workshop on Emotion in HCI. The aim of this working group was to sketch an affective system for the support of depressed people living mainly on their own. In this paper we present some results of this work, focusing on how acquired emotion information could be processed and provided to the stakeholders, and how the system could respond to sensed changes in the emotional state of a patient.