MIT's Open Documentary Lab and IDFA's DocLab have joined together to put the long story of documentary innovation into perspective, and to speculate about its future.
Marketing has always been about playing the heartstrings, but don't think Apple's new patent on mood-sensing technology is going to revolutionize the field, says mood-tracking technology researcher Whitney Erin Boesel
Apple is seeking a patent on something it calls "Inferring user mood based on user and group characteristic data" that its application says would figure out how you are feeling and "... then deliver content that is selected, at least in part, based on the inferred mood."
Called EmotionScan, the online feature linking facial expression to personal finance management skills was developed by the Bank of New Zealand in partnership with a psychologist, Dr Stuart Carr, and Swiss emotion software firm nViso.