Abstract: Emotional intelligence is the ability which processes emotion and emotional information, and affective computing in artificial intelligence is to make the computer possess the ability of processing affective information between man-machine interacting, it can draw an analogy between the computer and the brain in processing emotional information. In the last few years, artificial intelligence experts have already been cognizant of the important function and meaning of emotional intelligence in affective computing, the computer has been possessed to identify and express affective ability, and the computer have been developed with inferior affective ability. The development and application of senior affective computer will depend on the close collaboration between artificial intelligence experts and psychologists, both their achievements can be used for reference and complementary each other.

Key words: emotional intelligence, affective computing, artificial intelligence, relation