Before reading emotions it is necessary to identify the person in front of you. Until and unless you recognize a person from distance you cann't greet him/her which is the first step to make a warm relation. It may be a novel experiment but is like a person needing water is being offerred soft drink.
On 2/27/11, Chetan Soni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Padmanabham, it's really greate. The next step will be, our mobile phone > recognizing an individual and saying "mr/mrs/ms so and so is smiling." > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "padmanabham" <[email protected]> > To: "access india" <[email protected]> > Cc: "blind city" <[email protected]>; "bsftb" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 4:30 PM > Subject: [AI] new technology helps visually impaired to see emotions > > > Without vision it's impossible to interpret facial expressions, or so it's > believed. Not any more. Shafiq ur Réhman, Umeå University, presents a new > technology in his doctoral thesis - a Braille code of emotions. > "It gives new opportunities for social interactions for the visually > impaired," he says. > > Lacking the sense of vision can be very limiting in a person's daily life. > The most obvious limitation is probably the difficulty of navigation, but > small details in everyday life, which seeing people take for granted, are > also missed. One of those things is the ability to see a person during a > conversation. Facial expressions provide emotional information and are > important in communication. A smile shows pleasure, amusement, relief, etc. > Missing information from facial expressions create barriers to social > interactions. > > > "Blind persons compensate for missing information with other senses such as > sound. But it is difficult to understand complex emotions with voice alone," > says Shafiq ur Réhman. > > > His thesis addresses a challenging problem: how to let visually impaired > "see" others' emotions. To make this possible the research group has > developed a new technology based on an ordinary web camera, hardware as > small as a coin, and a tactile display. This enables the visually impaired > to directly interpret human emotions. > > > "Visual information is transferred from the camera into advanced vibrating > patterns displayed on the skin. The vibrators are sequentially activated to > provide dynamic information about what kind of emotion a person is > expressing and the intensity of the emotion," he explains. > > > The first step for a user is to learn the patterns of different facial > expressions by using displaying the emotions in front of a camera that > translates the emotions into vibrational patterns. In this learning phase > the visually impaired person have a tactile display mounted on the back of a > chair. When interacting with other people a sling on the forearm can be used > instead. > > > The main research focus has been to characterise different emotions and to > find a way to present them by means of advanced biomedical engineering and > computer vision technologies. The project was founded by the Swedish > Research Council. > > > The research group's spin-off company Videoakt AB has been granted a patent > for the technology, which soon will be available as a product on the open > market. Tactile feedback is also interesting in other areas as a future > communication tool, for seeing people as well. > > > "We have successfully demonstrated how the technology can be implemented on > mobile phones for tactile rendering of live football games and human emotion > information through vibrations. This is an interesting way to enhance the > experience of mobile users," explains Shafiq ur Réhman. > > > On Wednesday, 28 April, Shafiq ur Réhman, Department of Applied Physics and > Electronics, Umeå University, will defend his doctoral thesis, titled > Expressing Emotions through Vibration. > The dissertation will take place at 9:00 a.m. in N300, Natural Sciences > Building, Umeå University. The faculty opponent will be Professor Xiaoyi > Jiang, University of Munster, Germany. > > For further information, please contact: > Shafiq ur Réhman > Phone: +46 90-7869373, +46 73 6953678 > E-mail: [email protected] > Referenslänk: Electronical publication of the doctoral thesis. > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! > Question 9 relates to disability. > > > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! > Question 9 relates to disability. > -- Naresh Kumar Assistant Professor Department of History Kamala Nehru College (University of Delhi) To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
