Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives — how we learn, how we communicate, how we make decisions. Yet they’re absent from our digital lives; the devices and apps we interact with have no way of knowing how we feel. Scientist Rana el Kaliouby aims to change that. She demos a powerful new technology that reads your facial expressions and matches them to corresponding emotions. This “emotion engine” has big implications, she says, and could change not just how we interact with machines — but with each other (Credit: ted.com)
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Click the image above. You will be taken to the page where the TED Talk is for you to watch. After watching the TED Talk, answer these questions:
- Give a 2-3 sentence summary on what the TED talk discussed.
- Do you think this app would sell if offered today in an app store (Explain)?
- Name an industry (ex. clothing) industry) where you think this type of technology could be the next best selling app in your app store.