Posts Tagged «emotion»
Smartphones become capable of sensing human emotion December 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Smartphones are amazing. They tell us where we’re going, let us know if it’s going to rain, and even act like personal assistants. Now, a new research project out of the University of Rochester aims to make your phone capable of sensing your emotions just from measuring how you’re speaking — not based on what you’re saying.
Computer AI successfully identifies why abstract art evokes human emotion November 20, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Artist Wassily Kandinsky feels that abstract art, what people would perhaps consider the most emotionally subjective form of art, is actually completely objective. He suggests that the emotional objectivity of abstract art lies in the characteristics of the colors and their interactions with one another — and thus could be taught to a computer.