What Is Adaptation?

Why Is Adaptation Relevant to Affective Computing?

A More Complex Response Is Adaptation of Interaction

What Do the Readings Have to Say About Adaptation?

Relevance

Specifically

Biological Definition

Homeostatic Definition

How Is It Evidenced?

Which Aspects of Adaptation Are of Interest?

Synthesis

Adaptation Must Not Violate UI Heuristics

Adaptation Redefined

Adaptation Redefined (Cont.)

Adaptation Redefined (Cont.)

Adaptation Redefined (Cont.)

Adaptation Is Not Always Dynamical

Gulf Between HCI and Adaptive Systems Theory

Possible Thesis Directions

Appendix

What Is Homeostasis?

What Is Usability?

What Is Stability

With What Accuracy Can Emotions Be Detected?

What Is FACS?

What Is a Random Number?

What Is a Random Variable?

What Is a System?

What Is a Dynamical System?

Simple Pendulum As a Dynamic System

What Is a Stochastic System?

What Is a Deterministic System?

What is a Map?

What is Topology?

What is Structural Stability

Outset for Genetic Algorithm