Do you talk back to your computer? If you have a camera connected to your computer, would you let the computer scan your face to look for expressions? What if your keyboard and desk could check for sweaty palms to know you are nervous or upset (or furiously coding)? Can (or should) a computer respond to human emotion? What is "Affective Technology"?
A Washington Times article discusses the area of "Emotional Computing". The article include information about research going on at the MIT Media Lab in the Affective Computing Group. MIT Affective Computing researcher Rosalind Picard is quoted in the article. Picard also contributed chapter 13, "Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Emotions and Computers", in the MIT Press book, "HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computer As Dream and Reality" (ISBN: 0262692112). Rosalind Picard is the author of the book, "Affective Computing", MIT Press (ISBN: 0262161702).
The Times article also mentions MIT graduate student Carson Reynolds. Jussi Angesleva & Carson Reynolds are the creators of an email program called Emotemail. "EmoteMail is an email client that is augmented to convey aspects of the writing context to the recipient. The client captures facial expressions and typing speed and introduces them as design elements."
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