The phrase "affective device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing tools or methods that evoke emotional responses or feelings.
Example: "The film employed an affective device to enhance the audience's emotional engagement with the characters."
Alternatives: "emotional tool" or "sentimental mechanism".
Our analysis enriches the literature on the potential of metaphor as an instrument of cognitive and affective manipulation, a device of strategic discourse, and a tool in shaping public opinion.
An affective GPS car navigation device would respond with a soothing voice when it detects a driver is stressed.
A company spokesman told NPR: The bra sensing system is just one instance of a class of work from a group of Microsoft researchers who are focused on the broader topic of affective computing, or designing devices and services that are sensitive to people's moods and react accordingly.
Numerous studies of affective satisfaction toward mobile devices have been conducted in laboratory environments.
These devices and their affective counterparts were rigorously cataloged and described by such 17th- and 18th-century theorists as Athanasius Kircher, Andreas Werckmeister, Johann David Heinichen, and Johann Mattheson.
In the field of affective computing, sensors and other devices are also getting very good at observing and interpreting facial features, body posture, gestures, speech and physical states, another key ingredient in emotional intelligence.
Another feature of the iwaku lamp is it's been designed to throw out a high light intensity which its creators say means it can double as a light therapy device to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Yes, it does sound pretty strange, but the device exists to treat seasonal affective disorder, or that temporary depression that some people get during winter.
It has never been tested in a randomised trial whether the continued use of an electronic device, including a feedback loop, improves affective symptoms and other outcomes in bipolar disorder.
Eye tracking devices are very successful in measuring affective parameters such as concentration in the computerized learning environments, and Bixler et al. were using eye tracking data detect mind wandering during computerized reading [19].
