Startups Monitor Emotions to Optimize Consumer Value, Vehicle Safety, and Employee Performance
Many of the advances in internet of things (IoT)-based data gathering and analytics sound like Orwellian spying. And indeed, nearly every week brings new instances of devices streaming sensor measurements to a cloud-based server...
Facebook Utilizes Emotional Data From Reactions
Facebook Reactions debuted as the ad tech industry looks more seriously at emotional analysis. Eventually, consumers will only see the ads they want to see when and where they want to see them.
But for...
Businesses Harness Emotional Analytics For Gains
Companies are using behavioral analytics and sentiment analysis to better understand their customers, but there are still important pieces of insight missing. Few businesses have the ability to engage individuals in a way that...
Personality-driven Robots Spreading at Disney Theme Parks
The process of making a Disney park feel alive is most easily encapsulated in animatronic figures. These hydraulic, pneumatic and now electric figures have been a fixture at Disneyland since the 60s. Since then,...
Here is how video game AI is changing the world
There are plenty of articles out on the internet talking about how 2017 will be the year of AI and how it will change the way in which we drive our cars, organize our...
AI Helping Machines to Get Better at Understanding Emotions
Two thousand seventeen certainly was an emotional year for mankind. While homo sapiens continue to yell at Alexa and Siri, the actuality of people’s willingness to pursue virtual relationships over human ones is startling.
In...
Affectiva and Uber talk about emotional intelligence and machine learning
Your phone doesn’t know how you’re feeling — but you may want it to if that capability came with a few fringe benefits. Affectiva makes emotion-detection software, and CEO Rana el Kaliouby was full...
Five Powerful Insights on Artificial Intelligence from AI World 2016
By: Aleisha McKeeby, Solutions Marketing Manager & Sr. Bots Evangelist, Kore
We flew cross-country this week for full immersion into artificial intelligence, to network with great minds, and to share the Kore platform with thought-leaders...
Facebook acquires emotion detection startup FacioMetrics
Facebook could one day build facial gesture controls for its app thanks to the acquisition of a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company called FacioMetrics. The startup made an app called Intraface that could detect seven...
MIT Shows Emotions Can Be Detected Remotely
Emotions can be detected remotely using a device that emits wireless signals to help it measure heartbeat and breathing, say researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
The new device, named “EQ-Radio,” is 87 percent accurate...