Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an affective state of a user. A user behavior characteristic is detected in response to content provided to the user. Content metadata indicates a context of the content provided to the user and a probability of the user experiencing at least one expected emotion in response to an interaction with the content. Based on the context and the at least one expected emotion indicated in the content metadata, one or more rules are applied to map the detected user behavior characteristic to an affective state of the user.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-LEARNING, CONTENT-AWARE AFFECT RECOGNITION