In a recent blog post, we discussed emotion recognition technology in terms of how it would change interactions between individuals in an online setting. The same technology is also being engineered in the form of robotic companions for children with autism or chronic health problems. Scientific American recently published an article about ALIZ-E, a consortium…
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Many of you have probably already heard of Bethany Storro, a Vanouver, Washington resident who, back in August, claimed an African-American woman in her 20’s threw acid on her face as she called out, “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?”. Recent news coverage now says that the story that Storro told was…
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Some of you may have seen Miss California Carrie Prejean on the Miss America Pageant last year. Prejean was faced with a tough question during the Q&A portion of the show, when she was asked her opinion on gay marriage by Perez Hilton, a popular Hollywood blogger. While you may or may not have agreed…
Read MoreComputers Reading Your Emotions
Stephen Shankland, a technology journalist, wrote an August 2010 article for CNet.com regarding the development of emotion recognition technology, which would enable computers to detect what the user is feeling in real time. The World Wide Web Consortium (the organization which standardizes many Web technologies) is attempting to standardize and formalize emotional states using a…
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