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

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EmoRate is an application that demonstrates the power of Affective Computing, a technology that allows computers to detect and react to human emotions and will change drastically the way we interact with them in our daily lives. The last barrier that has held Affective Computing back, an affordable consumer grade EEG headset, has been broken with the introduction of the 14-electrode EPOC headset, created by Emotiv systems, Inc. This videos shows EmoRate in action as it records my emotions while watching the fantastic Sintel animation trailer, from the Durian Open Movie Project, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Please visit their web site, and watch the original high definition version of the trailer:

http://durian.blender.org/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• affective
• computing
• emotiv
• sintel
• ai
• artiticial
• intelligence
• emotions
• durian

[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.

[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)

[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!

...

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]

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

[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?

[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.

[Dilophodd]

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