Silvana has learned from her family home that exchanging looks and gazing when interacting with others is important when developing significant affective connections.
The following case example takes place between two infants and as they become more mobile different symbolic and emotional productions lead to developing strong affective connections.
Rosalind Picard (http://tinyurl.com/4o2sk) at MIT's Media Lab is developing "affective computers", designed to assess the user's emotional states and respond with their own emotional states.
They envisage using these relationships for developing affective tutoring application.
Very recently, other authors have developed affective dialogue models which take into account both emotions and dialogue acts.
The concept of affective connections as a theoretical concept is developed in this paper to understand subjectivity.
There are many symbolic and emotional productions made as the experience develops, and how the affective connection is made.
The analysis of the data includes moments of intensity, affective exchange and action and affective connections.
This example contains moments of affective action and of building affective connections.
Image 9 and 10: Moments of building affective connections.
