TEDxSF - Roz Picard - Emotion Technology

Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves as chairman and chief scientist.

Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctoral degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. Prior to completing her doctorate at MIT, she was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty, where she became internationally known for content-based retrieval research, for creating new tools such as the Photobook system, and for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in digital video.

She is the author of the award-winning book Affective Computing, which was instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She has authored 200 scientific articles and chapters and also holds multiple patents. In 2005, she was honored as a Fellow of the IEEE.

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[Eric John Sawyer]

What a great communicator. 

[Kevin Shockey]

The Affective sensors are breakthrough innovation. With simple measurements of temperature and perspiration, the sensors can correctly predict positive and negative responses to stimuli. Combining it with facial emotion detection is only an approximation. Where temperature and perspiration are physiological, sentiment is subjective. With machine intelligence those approximations will significantly improve.

[Rajiv Samaroo]

i find it hard to believe that the americans were more expressive. the japanese language itself is extremely emotive

[Flowfree89]

plus, I think there was a study, measuring American's and Asian's (Japanese) different way to express emotions. Of course Americans were more expressive than Asians, BUT the interesting fact was that this gap between cultures was limited to social scenarios, while there was no difference in showing emotions when the American or the Japanese were by themselves (like, at home, watching tv, ...).

[lilprepperman]

no look up unviresal expressions happyneiss sadness etc are all the same for all cultures paul ekman dicoverd this

[Alexis Torrez]

There's more scientist to do with this technology, congratulations for starting something new.

[cbjewelz]

I guess that is true, I was more thinking about body language. But what is true is the intensity of facial and tonal expressions varies with culture. For instance, as a westerner, in general, I have a harder time reading the facial expressions of Asian people. And at the risk of sounding offensive, some Asian languages sound angry or "stressful" a lot of the time just because of their rhythm and sounds.

[Bill Wesley]

People pretend to have feelings they don't have, people pretend not to have feelings they do have, its a mistake to take all that at face value however and declare foreigners "inherently different" because intolerance can ride in on this idea, and would be difficult without it. Anyway it all boils down me asking "check out the theory I've developed in 25 years of study" and you saying "I don't need to check it out because its wrong" a pointless exercise in futility, I'll not write again.

[Bill Wesley]

By the way not only you can tell what a character feels in a foreign film when you do not know the language and customs with your EYES CLOSED so that you can ONLY hear tone of voice or else with your EARS COVERED so you can ONLY see facial expression.What IS prescribed by culture is what emotion is OK or is not OK to feel in a given situation. How a given emotion is manifested in tone of voice or facial expression seems to be like breathing, it is instinctual and universal.