Affective Computing timeline

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    Affective Computing Timeline

  • Mood Rings

    Mood Rings
    Joshua Reynolds and Maris Ambats created the mood ring in 1975. The purpose of the mood ring was to detect the humans emotions through body temperature. Now this wasn't the most accurate way to measure emotions however it was a great start to finding new ways to detect and interpret emotions.

  • Rosalind Picard

    Rosalind Picard
    The beginning of Affective Computing. Rosalind Picard is an American scholar and founder of the Affective computing research group at MIT media Lab. In 1995 she proposed the idea that emotions should be explored with new perspectives which have not been previously mentioned. To Sum up her ideas she decided on the name "Affective Computing".

  • MIT Lab

    MIT Lab
    In 1997, Picard's group started leading research in the MIT Lab. Their goal was to combine engineering and computer science with psychology and ethics. https://www.media.mit.edu/people/picard/overview/

  • Clippy

    Clippy
    Microsoft had a function called Clippy that could tell what the user was doing and regularly offered to help. This feature became annoying because users would bump into Clippy and its suggestions more often then they would have wanted to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnZ7AFiebys

  • Affectia

    Affectia
    The Media Lab at MIT is where Affectiva, an emotion monitoring tool, was developed. Based on behavioral indicators and facial cues, the software can identify human emotions.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFrSFMnskI4

  • Emotient

    Emotient
    Emotient is a firm that analyzes facial expressions to identify people's emotions using artificial intelligence technologies. This tool became popular in the business setting. Advertisers were able to use this technology to detect peoples emotional responses to the new presented product.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/how-emotient-ai-works-2016-1

  • Futuristic Cars

    Futuristic Cars
    I think that the future will bring big improvements in the car industry. We already have self driving cars but I think that will become the new norm in the next 10-15 years. Especially with gas prices becoming pricier it only makes sense for people to switch to electric cars. With that I think that these electric cars will be even fancier and have more and more options.