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Through the glasses to see through you
Good communication, communication difficulties? Try to decipher emotions password new invention the "reality glasses" it, maybe it can help you out of the social dilemma
Wen / Lu Jing
To experience the new technology, the British correspondent Sally Eddie came to the designer Rosalind Picard at the MIT Media Lab. At first, Eddie a little self-satisfied, she felt sharp questions, certainly Picard seen one of the most astute correspondents.
However, the next, Pickard gave her a pair of glasses, one wearing glasses, Eddie immediately found himself completely wrong. She realized that the original admiration in Picard's face askew, the actual hidden is confusion and resentment. Worse, Eddie saw through the glasses, Picard felt she was very boring.
Eddie has been able to get this information, because through the headphones connected to the glasses have a small voice whispering moving her, tell her the true idea of Picard. At the same time, the built-in red glasses start flashing at the top of her right eye, warning her not to go on. Eddie said, which seems to let her have a sixth sense in general.
Pickard of the invention only one of many "social X-ray glasses" in one case, it is the built-in camera and analyzed by the facial expressions of the software to improve people communicate with each other, in order to avoid the embarrassment and embarrassing social situations. Some companies have the technology to employees with a device to help them improve their communication with customers. With this technology, people's emotional intelligence is being greatly improved, but we are ready to personal feelings, "broadcast" out of, or insistence on maintaining privacy?
Social Perspective glasses
People always think that a lot of subtle facial expressions reflect inner emotions. The 1970s, American psychologist Paul Ekman identified seven basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, and surprise, and later became a polygraph theory. Polygraph theory assumes, involuntarily "micro-expressions" can be a liar in the face to restore its integrity prior to exposing deception, although this theory later was cold, but this principle has not completely disappeared.
In conversation, gestures, emotions expressed by some of the plays of social lubricant. For example, when following another person's ideas, people will nod involuntarily, or by a little side-view action, to represent the loss of communication with each other clues. Many of these signals may be misunderstood, sometimes because of this misunderstanding of different cultural backgrounds has the unique signal caused.
More often, people can not recognize someone's face. In face to face conversation, a person's face, thousands of small signals, such as eyebrows, Duqi or opened his mouth, as well as instant missed a series of non-verbal hint, these will increase people's verbal communication.
The use of technical means to amplify these signals the idea was first Cambridge 瑞娜艾尔凯 than Leo's, the idea is to help those who are difficult to identify the feelings of others with autism.
Kai Liao than recognize that Ackerman's "seven emotions" theory for improving the conversation between the ordinary and no special help. In 2005, she was invited with the Cambridge Ximengbailun - Cohen to join, to help her determine a set of six more relevant facial expressions, namely: thinking, identity, focused, interested, confused and disgusted. To create these special words, they specifically hired actors to imitate the facial expressions, so volunteer to say the meaning of these expressions, then most people's reactions prevail.
In order to be able to use these signals to produce a prototype glasses, Kai Liao than with the original electronic engineer Picard collaborative development. In the glasses inside, there is a grain-sized camera with a wire winding connected to the compact size of a deck of cards on a computer, a special camera to track this conversation face of the object 24 "feature points", by pickup Germany, developed software to analyze numerous "micro-expressions" to calculate the frequency of these expressions appear and duration. Then, these data were compared with the known expression library.
Eddie and Picard in her office in conversation, a computer screen to show Eddie Pickard design facial expressions. But Eddie only through headphones and glasses on the lights to get a summary of the information, Pickard said, "If I smile and nod, you get the green light." Later, when Eddie saw frequently in their conversation during the red light appears, she prompted, change their attitudes and ideas of conversation.
They organized a trial of this device in patients with autism, very popular. Ultimately, this system can be integrated into an "augmented reality" glasses, the wearer can be in front of computer image showing the same scene with the scene.
In the calibration prototype, Picard and Kai Liao than surprised to find that most people can only be correctly interpreted 54% of Bailunkeen true expression. This indicates that the vast majority of people - and not just autism - in conversation with people may also need to draw some of the perceived emotions of others assist device. Pickard said, "People just are not good at that." Instead, the software was able to correctly identify 64% of the face.
Picard and Kai Liao than in the United States Waltham, Massachusetts, opened a baby called alpha for companies to sell their expression recognition software. Their clients include some of the people want to estimate how they felt their advertising or film company. Now, with colleagues 穆罕穆德霍 odd one, they have the adjustment algorithm, in order to find out in more subtle expression differences, for example, a smile of joy and frustrations of the smile, and sometimes, both smiling looks very similar, but their algorithms were more than tell the difference between the two weak. Hodge said: "The machine analyzes the internal details of a smile than when people have an advantage."
A method for the baby is also negotiating with a Japanese company, the Japanese intend to use their algorithms to distinguish faces of the Japanese smile. They have given 10 different types of smile name - including a happy laugh, giggle and ridicule, and so on.
Pickard said that the software can enlarge people willing to provide clues, but it does not extract the people are reluctant to share information, of course, it is not a simple lie detector. Eddie found her difficult to fool the machine a long time, because once she was busy talking, you can not concentrate, "pretended" So, her true feelings will be exposed.
A variety of new reality glasses
People talk in the release of some of the clues are hard to disguise. In addition to facial expressions, it also issued a set of involuntary "honest signal", the term is a researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory Alex Pentland (Alex Pentland) in 2000 to supplement the language to describe social signals and determined that they contain images such as gestures, tone and pitch changes. It is a response to these cues, but often not a conscious response. If people are aware of others and their social activities in the issue of more clues, it will have on the surrounding social context of a more comprehensive understanding, so that it can respond more calmly.
And now, through the overlay graphics, "augmented reality glasses" could be that people see things that previously presented. With the appropriate sensors and applications, one day, may be seen through the glasses to some of the following things:
For example, in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, police wearing special glasses just to see one to know whether a person is a criminal. The working principle is that such glasses can scan the faces of the characteristics of the observer, then the photo database and match criminals connected, if the red light on the description of pairing is successful, that is, the observed criminals.
The above design has a more widely used. Monocle is developing a similar device that can retrieve the object being to communicate with people talking over the video, audio or text fragments, even for the past and are now talking of real-time connection between the subject, in principle, if allowed sharing, the device can be used to view other people's conversations.
Increase the microphone and voice recognition technology, the monocle devices can also exchange objects into real-time voice subtitles.
The U.S. military has created a radar imaging device that can penetrate the wall of any room to capture 3D images of objects. Similarly, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University Yasexiehe (Yaser Sheikh) imaging machine for the manufacture of a car augmented reality system, allows drivers to see around blind spots. The system can not see the driver with the camera focused the road, and captured video, and then let the distorted image appears on the display of augmented reality, so the driver can basically see the obstacles the blind. ★
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