The idea is simple: to go beyond the traditional methods we humans are using to communicate our emotions and the way computers can understand them; basically meaning to go beyond emoticons, so that human computer interaction can be closer to more natural ways of human communication.

If you want to read an extended article, go here.

Chistian Nold has worked with several groups in the design of these maps for five different world cities. Groups of people walking around the city and describing their reactions to particular places in several ways in a digital map.

Do not miss the project and the representation of some maps.

As time goes by, the degree of realism in virtual worlds, videogames or robots is getting really close to what we call ‘reality’. In this sense, Iroshi is bringing something really amazing.  The Geminoid F, his new creation, shows a set of facial expressions that would make many people doubt whether we are in front of a robot or a person. The video is absolutely enlightening.

Organized by the IEEE CIS Task Force on Player Satisfaction Modeling and the Humaine Association SIG on Games and Entertainment
21 August 2010 - 21 August 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark

The question behind:  are they in the way to kill cinema as an art?

http://www.youtube.com/v/8XYAQ69×918

The Haptics project presents us a way to reinforce and reproduce emotions experienced through virtual worlds, especially Second Life.

The system is able to recognize nine different emotions in the senteces written by avatars and reinforces own feelings through haptic devices connected to individuals, that for example allow to feel hugs by pressuring on the chest and on the back.

Difficult to imagine? Watch the following video !

This Sensitive Artifial Listener (SAL) intends to engage users in a conversation by paying attention to unverbal communication and affective states of users. The objective of these SALs are to foster their own emotions within users’ affective states.

You can see a demo in the following video:

More information in the website of the SEMAINE project.

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This LREC 2010 workshop on multimodal corpora will feature a special
session on databases of motion capture, trackers, inertial sensors,
biometric devices and image processing.

http://www.multimodal-corpora.org

Link to the journal

The headset allows the gathering of data in three categories of inputs: conscious thoughts, emotions and facial expressions. There is a lot to say about the capabilities of EPOC to measure emotion-related data and about executingg specific actions based on previously trained thoughts, but we have been dedicating some effort to test the effectivity in the identification of facial expressions and the results are pretty interesting.

EPOC picks up signals of the facial muscles through EEG sensors. It is in this way that expressions like smiling, laughing or jaw or teeth clenching are detected by the system once it has been trained by a particular person. Detections are generally very fast (10 ms) and the degree of accuracy is quite good.

The possibilities of EPOC for the educational and gaming industry are huge. Further news in our research will be announced in this blog.

For more information visit Emotiv.