EmoRate - Recording emotions with the Emotiv headset. Featuring the Sintel animation trailer.

[dplocksmith91]

I think this software could help me and people like me with emotional problems. We can concentrate on different thoughts and see how our emotions flare, and learn to control them through visualization.

[gaypotter]

this is amazing! imagine all the cool shit that this could be applied to! im mainly thinking video games, but thats all i realy think about..

1. to give feedback to companies automaticly so they know what was good or bad about the game.

2. to control what happens next in a level.

[Riboshom]

Ok, now, let's try that on 2 girls 1 cup!

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ANGER OVERLOAD

FEAR OVERLOAD

DOES NOT COMPUTE

[ddnguyen278]

This is the beginning of the external memory concept from those futurist vision such as Ghost in the Shell, where people use machines to store high fidelity memories blurring the lines between artificial and real memories.

[ericrocksabeard]

I can see some use for this kind of mind-reader device in prosthetics, but it would probably need to be more sensitive than only being able to read strong emotions. I bet that soon people will be able to have extra mechanical arms and tails and stuff like that, and eventually we will have synthetic nerve endings for said cyborg parts. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[SuperGamer87]

Cool! And good with promoting Blender and Sintel!

[roschler]

@SuperGamer87 - Thanks! I really can't wait until Sintel comes out. At least it's pretty soon now.

[distressed7]

No way am I interacting with a fucking computer from the depths of my soul. This is where cool shit and me depart. Dumbfucks that think this is overreaction should sell their brains to science while alive.

[ericrocksabeard]

@distressed7 I know how you feel. I'm more concerned about how "big brother" will find a way to have access to my thoughts through this thing. Gotta find those terrorists, right?

[distressed7]

@ericrocksabeard Yes. The hook is the gadget driven pop culture and its invasive properties via the computer. No one hides the fact that the net is a totally compromised operation. The next step is for centralized control. Whether governments use this or not, and I can assure they will when they want to, it is still a travesty that some will go along with this because of sheer amusement:allowing disclosure of one's privacy, and allowing soulless categorization. No surprise: Many here have none.

[Dilophodd]

Lol watch the happy when she's taking care of the dragon :)

[Lollocide]

I think they may find some use for this sort of thing using a similar system to the AI Director in L4D one and two, where the AI Director builds the fear to a point, sets off a rush attack of zombies or sets up an ambush that spikes fear, followed by a rush.

Would make for better gaming too.

[Intosia]

Awesome!

[embers17]

I have one primary emotion about this whole thing: FEAR!!!

[ericrocksabeard]

@embers17 "Big brother" is watching.......your mind! Mwahahahahaha!!!

[distressed7]

@ericrocksabeard It must be amusing to whore one's soul. I hope your laughing in the mirror.ur

[michelXShawn]

thank god, i thought this was gona be something about emo kids. i love you!!

[guidewired]

I can imagine an intense video feedback loop going along with this if you search and and monitor at the same time

[roschler]

@guidewired - Yes. It's nice to see someone visualizing the potential end user complications. On a brighter note I'm hoping a side benefit of this tech, on a purely voluntary basis, is to help people break unhealthy feedback loops like watching too much frightening TV, getting stuck in a 'greed' loop whether it is compulsively accumulating too many news clippings of a certain topic or mining for virtual gold endlessly in an RTS game, etc.

[NixuzE]

This would have been a lot more impressive if the person in the demo was not someone with prior knowledge of the equipment. I wonder how well this stuff would work if you took an average person off the street, not someone who knows exactly what to do with their face to trigger the events.

[roschler]

@NixuzE - If you get the chance go to the web page for EmoRate. This tech is brand new. I use the speech reco market to describe its current state where I clearly state that yes, currently you need to be "kind" to the system the same way early speech reco demo presenters spoke very clearly and enunciated every word. But that will change over time as more people use the system and that training data is used to create a "universal database", and the algorithms improve.

[linclmsilva]

Awesome work! Congratulations!

I can see a ton of things that could benefit from this (mostly related to advertising / sensing the effectiveness of an ad / movie / tv show)! ;o)

[roschler]

@linclmsilva - Thanks. Yes it's probably a safe bet that something like the Nielsen ratings for TV is coming soon but with an emotion profile next to it.

[WalterSear]

Unimpressed. This is just reading facial movement. Smile-to-bookmark does not equal mind reading.

[rllybites]

So the meters tell us you like people who stroke things and are afraid of the dark. I'm not sure I want to wear that thing after all.

[ksandom40]

That's awesome. This would become very powerful once these results are amalgamated with millions of other viewers. It would also be a very effective way of improving search results because rather than simply clicking the close button, there could be feedback to say the results sucked. And combined with another technology, which results sucked.

I rememebr seeing a documentary about this technology on beyond2000 years ago. It's great to see that it has made it into the consumer world.

[roschler]

@ksandom40 - Thanks. For search, as I describe on the EmoRate web page, I believe we will see search results that automatically adjust their content to your mood. For example, a cancer patient who is worried and looking for support groups vs. a doctor researching the latest chemotherapy techniques. Each would see different search results matched to the emotional profiles of previous searchers who felt like them and found good matches, saving them the difficult task of keyword guessing.

[KingWilliamMB]

Nice to see that everyone has emotion ... :)

Nice video !! :)

[ZirixZero]

thats weird