Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
The recognition and analysis of interaction and emotion between the infants and their parents/primary caregivers play a beneficial role in the development of children. The presented study explores the assistive devices and approaches for the automatic interaction and emotion recognition in infants and their parents/primary caregivers. This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) based on the PRISMA approach, covering Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, IEEE Xplore, and ACM Digital Library databases. The primary objective of this SLR is to examine how and to what extent assistive technologies have been employed to support emotional and interactive dynamics within primary caregiver-infant dyads. The secondary objective is to focus on emotion recognition and attention detection throughout the interaction of these dyads. Within these objectives, we focused on several research questions involving the characteristics of the target population (infants and their caregivers); the data types and modalities reported by the reviewed studies; assistive technologies and devices used in these studies and the type of information (interaction, emotion, stress or attention) being investigated and the methods used for the recognition of this information. Our focus on the interaction between the infants and their primary caregivers brings a novel highlight to the domain. Moreover, we investigate how the technology and recognition approaches are used and the possible limitations and challenges they introduce, specific to this population. These findings might be beneficial in the cognitive and social development of children, especially in the therapy of children with special needs.