Technology and Emotions | Roz Picard | TEDxSF

[@nancytwomey]

Impressive. The possibilities are extensive - accross both the public and private sectors.

[@hartmeister]

Great video. I can't wait to see the products that come from her research.

[@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, ...).

[@Angiewisdomlearning]

This technology would be amazing for Aspies and people with mental blocks. I have a difficult time understanding facial expressions or interpreting ques and I have major social anxiety where at times, I cannot stand still and almost go into a frenzy of anxiety.

[@LillyRigoli]

Hahahaha what is the camera man doing from 16:09-16:42?? That made my EDA spike

[@kadeshwa]

aahahahaha! it looks like they're zooming into the asian women that's so funny and creepy

[@arrayorchestra]

I have a theory that may be very interesting to you. In short it hypothisises that tone of voice is music because it is universal across language, like facial expression, instrumental music being like puppetry where inanimate objects are manipulated to seem to express emotion. Working backwards from music I have formulated a likley "periodic table" of emotional elements that would then be the basis of all emotional compounds. See my TEDx video "The Geometry of Emotion"

[@KevinShockey]

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.

[@djgoldst]

Truly incredible.

[@thewillsfamilyaccount6486]

Brilliant!!

[@randomtrucks]

When I'm sad or stressed, when anything's off basically, I can feel it in my wrists. My right one, mostly. Kind of makes sense now. It's like joint pain, but deeper. Idk if that's something different but that's what I thought when I saw the left/right wrist graph

[@beren1223]

Carpal tunnel from using your mouse too much.

[@jakwire]

Prof Picard -- what is the likelihood of a system that can make qualitative discernment -- High (fear vs. extreme joy), Low (boredom vs. peacefulness)... Thanks for this great info!

[@cidasantana380]

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[@ashantyawosope1990]

Thanks for sharing this innovative technology

[@arrayorchestra]

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.

[@sydneywitt4509]

Fellow Picard- had to listen.

[@mariacristinabrodu3839]

I wonder if the brain waves variations matches those of the heart rate, being almost directly proportional.. at least for the plotting of the waves that don't separate left and right brain (e.g. the plotting of the bride at her wedding could easily match the plotting of her heart rate. In fact if I have to check the exact time of something that happened in the past - e.g. someone stole my phone - I check the heart rate graph, and it's accurate to the minute).

[@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.

[@AlexisTorrez]

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

[@daultonbaird6314]

15:42 TEDs can get like that sometimes.

[@TomGuarriello]

Really excellent.

[@HansonZoe]

Great TED talk Roz!

[@arrayorchestra]

Cultural convention sets limits on EVERY human activity but cultural convention can NOT change blue to red bitter to sweet or high to low. The basics of sensation are INHERENT in physiology and not amendable by culture, Further studies on tone of voice and facial expression do not show them to be cultural specific, rather these have been shown to be recognizable across cultural barriers, You can verify this yourself by watching a foreign film, emotion is easy to read even if language is unknown

[@RajivSamaroo]

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

[@TheFlowMind]

What about the noise?? people here are moving the GSR or EDA could be higher just because they are moving...

[@rosalindpicard711]

Movement does tend to increase EDA, although it does so in different ways than emotional arousal. We measure both and can use multiple channels to get more accurate interpretation.

[@TheFlowMind]

Thanks for your answer. We worked with EDA in one of our projects but we're not expert in physiology. The noise was a constant problem. I think we just need to know more about the measurement before using it.

[@nopillpill]

This tech will make it easier to detect people with anti-social personality disorder/psychopathy.

[@meceneau]

Chinese medicine knew about the wrist reading since way back

[@gulistanpk]

dikhao class ko video TA

[@lilprepperman]

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

[@arrayorchestra]

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.

[@cbjewelz]

pretty cool but don't cultural differences play a big role even in tone and facial expression?

[@quiettornado1970]

good thing the student didn't follow your instruction.

[@jaytheancient1531]

People

[@mypublicchannel3884]

It doesn't seem like so long ago so maybe there is hope for you. Do you have any idea where you were when your brain cell fell out and ypu decided that something that doesn't exist because nobody can point to it or point it out suddenly did exist evrn though you still couldn't point to it or point it out - except through words of course. But show me something in the dictionary that exists only rhrough words and that nobody can point out to anybody. You know - something that was talked into existing but has never been discovered. Go ahead, princess. The world awaits.