Esterline Power Systems president Mark Thek brings over three decades of experience in physics, power, and aerospace to his role. In addition to his work, Mark Thek is authoring a book called The Quantification of Human Emotion.
Quantifying something as subjective as human emotion has been a difficult problem for many generations, but new technologies are creating new possibilities to name, label, and study emotions. If and when emotions are quantifiable, it is believed that machines can learn them, which could change the way we interact with our devices (or them with us). Facial and speech analysis are two technologies that are improving rapidly. With enough examples and information, machines could learn via artificial intelligence (AI) how to identify our emotions based on our faces, voices, and what we say. A new application called EQ-Radio uses wireless technology to read breath and heart rate, and thus define a person’s emotions. The system has been shown to work 87 percent of the time. Affectiva is a company that has been analyzing faces all over the world to develop its Emotion AI facial emotion recognition system. These new technologies could improve the way we learn and work with machines and could also have major implications for how advertising works. |
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