The Affective Computing Research Group is working on computers that can read facial expressions and track basic states like confusion, liking or disliking.
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Wearable devices, such as electronic bracelets, can detect stress or excitement by measuring minimal changes in the sweat level.
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Emotion measurement technology will be soon ubiquitous.
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It will allow people to communicate in new different ways.
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It's a kind of very sophisticated version of the 'Like' button on Facebook.
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The applications of this technology are wide ranging.
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Medically, it could help people with autism spectrum disorders to read emotions.
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Commercially, it could be used to evaluate ads by tracking viewers' emotional response.
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Developers also say it could have important implications for social movements like the Egyptian revolution.
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Whoops!
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Here we go again yet another control device.
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Can you imagine any despotic, autocratic regime NOT buying these devices?.
And then of course in the democratic countries these will be pretty useful too.
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All in the interests of anti terrorism efforts of course.
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