Emotions
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ScienceWe've already seen interactive technologies that create smells or tactile sensations on command. Now, however, British scientists have developed a system that they claim can be used to make users experience specific emotions – and it does so without even touching the person.
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Over a number of years, researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed software to measure human emotion through face detection and analysis. Now the team has repurposed the software as an app for Google Glass, with a view to bringing its emotion-detecting technology to life.
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Swedish design company Kosta Boda recently held an art auction where money was irrelevant. In order to win a piece, bidders had to have the most pronounced physiological response upon first seeing it.
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Jointly developed by SoftBank Mobile and Aldebaran Robotics SAS, the semi-humanoid robot Pepper is designed to gauge human emotions and alter its behavior accordingly as a way to better fit into family life.
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A new online tool aims to create a real-time emotional map of how people all over the world feel. Called "We Feel," the tool analyzes 32,000 tweets a minute to monitor people's collective mood swings and how their emotions fluctuate over time globally.
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Researchers at Stanford University are looking to make games more interactive, with a prototype controller that monitors the player's physiological responses, then changes the gameplay to make it more engaging based on the player's feelings.
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Ever experienced road rage? What if an onboard emotion detection system could tell that you were getting annoyed and intervene? PSA Peugeot Citroen has teamed up with EPFL to develop an emotion detection system designed to recognize signs of irritation and fatigue in a driver’s facial expressions.
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Scientists from the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK are using expressive robot ERWIN (Emotional Robot with Intelligent Network) to study how long-term relationships may form between robots and humans.
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Steering clear of the traditional humanoid robot blueprint, inventor of the EmoSpark console Patrick Levy Rosenthal aims to bring artificial intelligence to consumers in the form of a cube small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
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Microsoft is throwing its hat into the wearable computing ring, reporting early progress in developing a wearable device which can infer your current emotional state and provide just-in-time feedback on when eating is a bad idea. Where do they hide the apparatus? In a bra.
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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.
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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.
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