Affective Computing Timeline

  • Facial Recognitions

    Paul Ekman created a technology called Facial Action Coding System that could analyze the movements in peoples faces to detect emotions.
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    ANNs

    Artificial Neural Networks
  • Idea of Affective Computing

    Roselind Picard came up with the idea of Affective Computing and wrote and published a paper about it.
    https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=5043
  • IBM's BlueEyes

    Project demonstrates early emotion-sensing capabilities. The technology is able to detect a persons emotion through the touch of a computer mouse.
    https://medium.com/@kousishanmugam97/blue-eye-technology-f59643826001
  • Clippy

    Microsoft assistant that was able to analyze what a person was doing on their computer and give them suggestions or offer help.
  • GPUs

    Graphic Processing Units
    (Boltzmann Machine, DeepFace)
  • Affectiva

    Produced FaceSense which is a program that had extreme accuracy in its analysis of facial emotions through the analysis of actual people and their emotional reactions.
  • ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Competition

    Google DeepMind, Go-playing AI, AlphaGo
  • Pepper

    The social robot developed by Aldebaran that could recognize faces, understand speech and touch, speek 17 languages, and has a sense of humor. The first real robot companion.
  • Emotient

    Awarded a patent for its ability to gather and label up to 100,000 facial images in a day.
  • Human-like robots

    With the way AI is being developed, the technologies that are being produced, and the research and implementation of emotions into AI and these technologies, it seems natural that people would be able to develop robots that truly could be like people because of their understanding of emotion and inteligence.