5th Workshop on Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction - Real world challenges: Held at the 23rd BCS HCI Group conference. 1st September 2009, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Affective computing is well recognised as an interdisciplinary field of research combining, bringing together aspects of human-computer interaction, design, psychology, sociology and the arts with the common goal of developing technology that serves the human in more sensible and sentient way. With the community growing ever faster and the number of projects, ideas, problems and challenges still rising faster than that of possible solutions, an annual meeting of those affected by such developments has proven to be a good anchor point in the course of the scientific year. This volume provides an account of the fifth workshop on emotion in human-computer interaction, held in the frame of the British HCI group's annual conference in 2009