The machine can say it but cannot hear it. Designed affective patterns and the expressive-sensing asymmetry in human-machine communication
Affect-adaptive systems increasingly act as communicators that sense a user's emotion and respond with events meant to change it, closing an affective loop. This vision assumes both that a machine's affective messages are received and that the bodily channel it monitors carries an intelligible reply-assumptions rarely tested together. In a within-subjects virtual-reality study (N = 20), an autonomous system delivered six empirically derived affective patterns-scripted emotional events distilled
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Published: 24 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 27 July 2026
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