A physics graduate of Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles, Mark Thek served for almost a quarter-century with Esterline Power Systems, a manufacturer of solid-state switchgear and related equipment for defense, aerospace, and rail applications. Stepping aside after more than a decade as Esterline Power Systems’ president, Mark Thek recently became an author. His book is entitled Quantification of Human Emotion.
It is safe to say that humans generally quantify emotional intensity by observation, including self-observation. One individual may rate his or her own anger as a 9 out of 10, while another may feel anger at only 1 on the scale of 10, the former portraying a very angry person and the latter, a “not so angry” person. Some companies, however, have developed technologies to do this by performing facial expression identification and various bodily imaging techniques. Others are working on software to detect not only positive or negative emotions, but also their cause, by text analysis. Both methods are thought of as budding technologies with room for growth in the near future. Comments are closed.
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