Abstract: Affective detection in human-computer interaction environment is an interdisciplinary field which is related to psychology,computer science,etc. The basic affective theories were presented in the paper, which provide the engineer with the background of psychology knowledge. Then according to the differences of the original data,the existing methods and techniques were introduced. Finally a summary was showed and the insufficiency and development of recent research were presented.

Key words: Affect detection, Interdisciplinary perspective