Detecting emotions with wireless signals
Measuring your heartbeat and breath, device can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry, or sad
Date:
September 21, 2016
Source:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary:
Researchers have developed "EQ-Radio," a device that can detect a person's emotions using wireless signals. By measuring subtle changes in breathing and heart rhythms, EQ-Radio is 87 percent accurate at detecting if a person is excited, happy, angry or sad -- and can do so without on-body sensors.
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Professor Dina Katabi (center) explains how PhD student Fadel Adib's (right) face is neutral but that EQ-Radio's analysis of his heartbeat and breathing show that he is sad.
Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL
As many a relationship book can tell you, understanding someone else's emotions can be a difficult task. Facial expressions aren't always reliable: A smile can conceal frustration, while a poker face might mask a winning hand.
But what if technology could tell us how someone is really feeling?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921093924.htm
