Archive for the 'Emotional Products' Category
One Step Closer To Emotional Machines
The Christian Science Monitor has an article on recent advances in affective computing… Read more
Materialism and Self-Esteem in Children
Medical News Today has an article about how feelings of self-esteem affect materialistic values in youths and adolescents…
Video Games Provide More Than Just Fun
Reuters has an article that has also appeared on CBC News on how video games provide more than just fun, satisfying deeper psychological and emotional needs…
Detecting Aggression on the Street
New Scientist Tech has an article about how the town of Groningen in the Netherlands has installed microphones at street level to help monitor the ‘emotional’ activity on the street… Read more
How’s the internet feeling today?
We Feel Fine is the brainchild of ‘harvests’ human feelings (nice image ;-)) from weblogs by searching for the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling” and then identifying the…
Detect the ‘Mood’ of the Room
Steve Portigal sent me a link about a Japanese system called the Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog Instrument (SHQJI). This product can… Read more
Games that respond to our emotions? (Part 2)
Weekend America has a story about how a device made by EmSense can monitor emotions for use in gaming applications.
“Video games that can tell what you’re feeling and even alter how the game reacts to you based on your emotional state are on the horizon, says Mike Zyda, who heads up the University of Southern California’s video game development program.”…
Sony’s Multi-Function Phone
Keeping with today’s mobile phone theme, Crave.cnet.com has an article about a new phone from Sony-Ericsson, the W44S, which has a dual hinge feature that allows it to…
Panasonic Emotion Phone
Crave.cnet.com has an article about a new phone from Panasonic (the “P702iD“) that includes visualizations (in the form of colour and image changes) of emotional state through voice analysis with something called…
