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Scientific disciplines are usually classified in two broad categories: natural sciences and social sciences. Natural sciences investigate the physical, chemical and biological aspects of Earth, the Universe and the life forms that inhabit it. Social sciences (also defined human sciences) focus on the origin and development of human beings, societies, institutions, social relationships etc. Natural sciences are often regarded as “hard” research disciplines, because they are based on precise numeric predictions about experimental data. Social sciences, on the other hand, are seen as...

Technologies for Affect and Wellbeing- Special Issue of theIEEE Transaction on Affective Computing. Guest Editors Rafael A. Calvo (The University of Sydney) Giuseppe Riva (ICE-NET Lab- Universitta Catolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Italy) Christine Lisetti (Florida International University) Background and Motivation There is an increased interest in...

At the end of January, the European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two FET Flagship projects . Federating more than 80 European...