Group items tagged

Realeyes last year received a near £3m grant from the The European Commission help develop its technology, which claims to track the ‘likability’ of brand’s marketing efforts by measuring people’s emotions via standard webcams as they watch video content.

Tools such as Realeyes allow us to get behavioural information upfront, so we can optimise and measure content before launch.

This enables us to deliver more effective video and more efficient distribution, making the message more impactful and delivering increased business advantage for our clients

The University of Canterbury team, led by Christoph Bartneck of the university's Human Interface Technology Lab, wanted to explore one way Lego might be influencing children through play. Toys, and play time, are considered vital to the development of emotional understanding in children, and with an average of 75 Lego blocks per human on Earth it makes sense to see what kinds of emotions Lego is presenting to children

On average, heads displayed 3.9 different emotions, which means that for a lot of the faces their emotional state is reasonably complex and ambiguous.

We cannot help but wonder how the move from only positive faces to an increasing number of negative faces impacts how children play

A company has created a set of ears that apparently respond to the wearer’s emotions via a sensor on the forehead.

they were able to show that automated facial expression recognition could be nearly as accurate as human recognition in analyzing a wider range of student movements and gestures.

emotionally-aware software isn’t without ethical and privacy questions, but it opens the door to technology that’s even more engaging and that fits more seamlessly into our lives.

types of technologies could be used to generate more personalized digital experiences

making robots look like humans or cute animals, we may develop emotional affinity toward the machines

. This could help promote trust with users—but perhaps also overtrust?

Robots are tools, but they are tools that sometimes hold meaning for people that interact with them, or through them, as when robots are teleoperated at a distance

By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.

Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.

negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills

Immersive journalism is an emerging genre in which sound, video, and reporting are melded together and presented with virtual reality technology to put the consumer in the scene, usually experiencing it from the point of view of the participants.

The larger concept is the cultivation of empathy, using the information—sight, sounds—point-of-view—to cause the user to see things he or she wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

It isn’t unreasonable to suggest that the way stories are told and received may fundamentally change in the next twenty to thirty years.  There are many ways to tell stories and to engage an audience.  Immersive journalism places emphasis on engagement through perspective, placing the user inside of the experience.

research shows that even very young children understand the distinction. Kids as young as four or five years old understand that it’s against the rules to turn aggressive play into real aggression.

As they grow older, children begin to develop an understanding of good and evil

Youngsters between the ages of 6 and 7 can better interpret characters’ emotions and motivations

OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up

100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized

The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible

Smarter, functional robots are poised to take our job--so goes the popular narrative--but they’ll never have the emotional intelligence to approximate the complexity of human relationships. Vincent and Emily seem to ask: if robots can fight like people in love, can they one day love like them too?

what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses

The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.

system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service

Their research suggests that the whoosh-ing sound of a can opening may make a drink seem fizzier, for example, or that the yellow hue of 7Up can make the soda taste more lemon-y.

new version of Cadbury's chocolate bar was similarly rejected by consumers when the company changed the classic rectangular chunks to curved segments. The chocolate bar was made exactly the same way that it always has been, but a big change in the way it looked made people think that it tasted drastically different

He's also working with a cancer hospital to experiment with the ways that plating, lighting and sound could counter the metallic taste and nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy.

body of the concept car is designed to maximize aerodynamic efficiency and is constructed primarily out of recycled materials

BMW has also eliminated to wood and leather from the its interiors to promote sustainable manufacturing.

The BMW design study also incorporates full autonomous and manual driving modes, called "Ease" and "Boost" modes.

В 2017 году в России появится первая многопользовательская игра с нейроинтерфейсом: гарнитура будет считывать эмоции игрока и транслировать их на игрового персонажа. Разработкой оригинального мультинейроинтерфейса с гарнитурой, способной регистрировать в режиме реального времени целый ряд физиологических показателей

Мы стремимся создать обучающую и развивающую систему, знаменующую привнесение нового механизма контроля игровой среды, поведения объекта и восприятия контента, — рассказал Владимир Статут, генеральный директор «Нейроматикс». — Создаваемая нами система — это мультинейроинтерфейс. На рынке игровых приложений пока нет нейроинтерфейса, который бы полностью соответствовал потребительским пожеланиям к утилитарным свойствам оборудования. В основном все что есть построено на распознавании электроэнцефалограммы, мы же стремимся расширить ворота, регистрируя больше показателей: кожно-гальваническую реакцию, миограмму, кулограмму, пульс, температуру и так далее. По сумме этих данных мы сможем получать нужную информацию о психофизиологическом состоянии пользователя, дифференцировать ее и направлять на систему управления средой, которая, в свою очередь, таким образом будет давать обратную связь и развивать пользователя

Фундаментальная задача в том, чтобы определить минимально необходимый набор физиологических параметров для выделения и классификации функциональных состояний: когда человек испытывает стресс, утомление и т.д.