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...
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Reviewer: Denise RQThank you.
It's a pleasure to be here.When something really mattersit elicits emotionand how do we help people
communicate emotion,to make life better,
whether at home,at work, for your customers,
for your kids at school?Our challenge at The MIT Media Lab
and at Affectiva,has been to come up with better waysto measure and help people
communicate emotion.I'll start with an example
that we did years agowhich was a skin conducting sensorthat we gave to an audience like you,
worn on the palm of the handand it glowed brightly every timethe audience got excited.
Every time they were engaged.We learned a lot that day. We learned for example
that every time a new speakercame out on stage,
the audience glowed....