Will Kinect track our emotions?

摘要

Games may learn to sense your emotions just by looking at you. Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze. who investigates affective computing at University College London, has looked at how gaming systems might read our emotional state from our posture. As well as detecting basic emotions such as anger or happiness, her experimental system can pick up emotions more specific to gaming such as triumph or defeat. In a study of people playing the Wii Sports boxing game, Bianchi-Berthouze found links between the range of their movements and their emotional state. Her set-up uses an expensive motion capture system to gather data on posture, but she says that it could in principle also work with commercial devices such as Microsoft's Kinect.