The 9TH AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2021 was held in a virtual format in the fall of 2021. It was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and featured the recent work on Affective Computing. The six best papers from this conference were selected by the technical program chairs. They were invited to submit their extended version to be considered for this special section at the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Each submission was reviewed by at least three expert reviewers and was evaluated in terms of overall contribution and the adequacy of the additional content to warrant a new article. This special section features five accepted submissions whose major contributions are summarized below.

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客座社论 ACII 2021 年最佳作品


2021 年第九届 AAAC 情感计算和智能交互会议于 2021 年秋季以虚拟形式举行。该会议在技术上由 IEEE 计算机协会联合主办，重点介绍了情感计算方面的最新工作。本次会议的六篇最佳论文由技术项目主席选出。他们受邀提交其扩展版本，以供考虑用于 IEEE 情感计算汇刊的这一特殊部分。每份提交的内容均由至少三名专家评审员进行评审，并根据整体贡献和附加内容是否足以保证新文章的充分性进行评估。这个特别部分包含五个已接受的提交内容，其主要贡献总结如下。