Gray Area Grand Theater: Cybersentics Book Club April 2026: Sentics – A Predecessor of Affective Computing?

Join us this April at Gray Area’s Cybernetics Book Club.

This month, Cybersentics Book Club discusses the idea that emotions have fixed, measurable shapes that transcend culture and can be induced through touch alone. Though contested, Clyne’s theory of sentic shapes casts a long shadow, most notably informing Rosalind Picard’s work on affective computing.

This Month’s Reading:

Clynes, M. (1976). Sentics — The Touch of Emotions. Anchor.