GREEN FLOAT - a Floating City in the Sky : DigInfo. World Most Amazing Scanner | OddStuff. Space Time Travel – Relativity Visualized. Specs that see right through you - 04 July 2011. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 Boring conversation? Accessories that decipher emotional cues could save your social life – or reveal that you're a jerk ROSALIND PICARD'S eyes were wide open.
Then Picard handed me a pair of special glasses. The glasses can send me this information thanks to a built-in camera linked to software that analyses Picard's facial expressions. We project many subtle facial expressions that mirror our feelings. In conversation, we pantomime certain emotions that act as social lubricants. More often, we fail to spot them altogether. The idea that technology could amplify these signals was first explored by Rana el Kaliouby at the University of Cambridge, UK. El Kaliouby realised that the "Ekman seven" would not be particularly helpful for enhancing the average conversation: after all, how often do you expect to see expressions of contempt or disgust? The prototype proved popular with autistic people who were invited to test it.
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