Emotions

RoboKind of Dallas, Texas has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise capital for the further development of its Zeno R25 interactive humanoid robot. The robot is designed to interact with humans in an intuitive way by detecting and mimicking emotions.

Often called the love hormone, oxytocin has shown the ability to enhance social bonding, decrease anxiety and encourage an overall feeling of satisfaction with life. A new study out of Northwestern University, however, finds that this ancient hormone has a dark side.

The University of Cambridge has developed virtual talking head technology that could one day be used as a digital person assistant

The O2Amps glasses from 2Al labs that were developed to help read people's emotions can also assist people with color blindness.

Taiwanese researchers have developed new tests for the addictive potential of computer games.

A woman suffering from aphasia can now send emails thanks to her son's customized Kinect interface.

Scientists have endowed a female-form android with complex facial expression features to establish if robots can express emotions.

The AutoTutor computerized tutorial system is able to adjust its teaching style, according to the detected psychological state of the student.

An emotion-recognizing computer system has been designed to make the use of automated telephone services less stressful.

Computer scientist Lijun Lin is working on software that will allow computers to recognize the emotions of their users.

Researchers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) are looking to use cognitive principles based on human psychological theories to assess animal emotions.

Researchers in Taiwan are turning to neural networks to help them break the cycle of repetitive behavior in robot toys and endow them with almost emotional responses to interactions.