Editing Affective computing (section)

=== Healthcare ===
[[Social robot]]s, as well as a growing number of robots used in health care benefit from emotional awareness because they can better judge users' and patient's emotional states and alter their actions/programming appropriately. This is especially important in those countries with growing aging populations and/or a lack of younger workers to address their needs.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence|last=Yonck|first=Richard|publisher=Arcade Publishing|year=2017|isbn=9781628727333|location=New York|pages=150–153|oclc=956349457}}</ref>

Affective computing is also being applied to the development of communicative technologies for use by people with autism.<ref>[http://affect.media.mit.edu/projects.php Projects in Affective Computing]</ref> The affective component of a text is also increasingly gaining attention, particularly its role in the so-called emotional or [[emotive Internet]].<ref>Shanahan, James; Qu, Yan; [[Janyce Wiebe|Wiebe, Janyce]] (2006). ''Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications''. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 94. {{ISBN|1402040261}}</ref>