While we may have applied AI based on the modeling of our left brain, which is associated with logic, reasoning and can effectively replace our left brain, the strong AI or full AI (also called
affective computing) that combines logic, cognition, emotion and empathy is largely unexplored.
Synesketch is a result of a research that spreads out through several diverse fields — from natural language processing techniques based on WordNet, across Ekman's research of emotions, to color psychology, visual design, data visualizations, and
affective computing.
In recognizing the tension between both the allure and threat of new technologies — from social media to
affective computing — the artists in this exhibition address the morphing body by way of the body, using performance, video, painting, and sculpture to investigate its physical and cognitive adaptations.
The residency investigated
affective computing and emotional capital.
It then focuses on three women engineers: pioneer Grace Hopper; Shaundra Bryant Daily, an African American electrical engineer who studied
affective computing; and Jean Yang, who emigrated from China and became a computer scientist.
Nadia Bianchi - Berthouze, who investigates
affective computing at University College London, has looked at how gaming systems might read our emotional state from our posture.
Hoque's approach puts a service spin on
affective computing.
The work represents a leap forward in the field of
affective computing, which seeks to build technologies that measure, respond to and influence our emotions.
Now, some startups are even developing technology that can understand sentiment, a trend known as
affective computing.
Not exact matches
Maja Pantic, a professor of
affective and behavioral
computing at Imperial College in London, tells Sample she is worried about a one - way brain drain from schools to tech companies: