Comments on: Helping Visually Impaired Individuals “See” Emotions http://www.humintell.com/2010/06/helping-visually-impaired-individuals-see-emotions/ See what you've been missing Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Keith D. http://www.humintell.com/2010/06/helping-visually-impaired-individuals-see-emotions/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 Keith D. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:51:49 +0000 http://www.humintell.com/?p=2858#comment-1591 I wonder if this would be better accomplished by having a pad of sorts attached to a part of the blind person's body, with little nubs that would press against their skin with varying degrees of pressure in accordance with specific facio-muscular movements according to FACS coding. Maybe that's better for a future generation of the technology, or maybe reliable computer-assisted FACS-coding is still a ways off. Either way, it paints a much brighter future for blind people to communicate with others. I wonder if this would be better accomplished by having a pad of sorts attached to a part of the blind person’s body, with little nubs that would press against their skin with varying degrees of pressure in accordance with specific facio-muscular movements according to FACS coding.

Maybe that’s better for a future generation of the technology, or maybe reliable computer-assisted FACS-coding is still a ways off. Either way, it paints a much brighter future for blind people to communicate with others.

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