Extra Sensory Perception

As technology continues to advance at such a fast pace, we are inundated with creative ways to see and understand the world and people around us. NewScientist has just released information on MIT’s Media Lab’s newest project – emotion recognition glasses. No doubt this would be beneficial for many social situations and would probably avoid…

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Q-Sensor: The Emotion Detection Sensor

MIT’s Technology Review recently wrote about a new emotion detection sensor that has been developed to “detect and record physiological signs of stress and excitement by measuring slight electrical changes in the skin.” Known as the Q Sensor, the technology was designed by Affectiva for doctors, caregivers, and patients to observe autistic children’s emotional changes.…

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Men Merging with Machines: Science/Technology Update

An “emotion” sensor if you will is being created that can not only detect a person’s emotions but make them visible to others’.  How, you ask?  A good question with a simple answer, it measures electricity via the skin and can supposedly tell if a person is bored, stressed or excited.  Both The Daily Star…

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What’s Your Fear Factor?

According to a recent article from Affectiva, a team of scientists at the Thrill Laboratory in UK, transformed a London cinema into an exciting social experiment, to see how the emotion of fear affected the human body! The audience’s fear factor was tested while watching, “Sinister” – a horror movie from the same producers of…

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