Affect, emotion, HCI - a three year retrospect

This paper takes a look at the first three workshops on emotion in human-computer interaction. The full-day events were held annually in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in the frame of the British HCI conference. The essence of this retrospect is encouraging. Taken as an indicator for how the field is developing, it shows the affective computing community moving at a high pace with energy and curiosity, affection and enthusiasm, optimism and confidence in its own and other's abilities. There is still a large number of open issues which need to be solved, namely in the sensing and ethics domain. This paper's contribution is a summary of and reflection on the workshops' results, giving account on collective work of, in total, about fifty researchers and developers, on three days in three consecutive years.