Affective computing

http://affect.media.mit.edu/projects.php

The Emotional-Social Intelligence Prosthesis

Technology does not naturally sense nonverbal cues such as facial expressions and tone of voice, and does not easily acquire common-sense knowledge about people. These "mind-reading" functions also do not come naturally for some people, such as those diagnosed with autism. ESP is an affective wearable system that explores ways to augment and enhance the wearer's emotional-social intelligence. ESP's computational model of mind-reading infers affective-cognitive mental states from head and facial displays of people in real time, and communicates these inferences to the wearer via visual, sound, and tactile feedback. Our work leverages the advances in affect sensing and perception to (1) develop technologies that are sensitive to people's affective-cognitive states; (2) advance autism research; and (3) create new technologies that enable people to enhance their social-emotional intelligence.