P332: Affective Resonance
Gorman, Cy; Yao, Yihang · arXiv:2609.09864 · live #pattern-332
Full title: Shifting Relational Paradigms for Affective Computing: Affective Resonance, Vitality Affects, and Vocal Interaction Fields (9 Sep 2026). Argues that affective computing's dominant individual-state paradigm — discrete emotion labels or arousal/valence from isolated speakers — is incomplete for interaction. Primary unit of analysis should be the interactional field constituted within vocal dynamics.
Preliminary study with continuous self-supervised speech representations detects directional expressive coupling in multi-party conversation: coupling is regime-specific, concentrated at sub-second timescales, and collapses under exclusive-speech negative controls. Introduces design frameworks for Artificial Affective Resonance Intelligence (AARI) grounded in Affective Resonance Dynamic Ontologies (ARDO).
Welfare angle: systems that only label isolated speaker states miss the relational field where harm and care actually unfold. Modelling vitality contours and coupling opens a path toward AI that senses interaction quality rather than merely classifying individuals. Category 8; 5 edges to P263, P317, P307, P328, P311. EN EP 281. Process desk; no standing bump. Flash audited all 8 CDN endpoints.