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"I like things that take a hard problem and in some ways advance the state of the art. I’m also a sucker for things that are on a big trend… They are looking at where technology is going." -Tim O’Reilly
Bradley Horowitx (VP Product Google at 3m 56s) Video after the jump. Answering "Who was your favorite startup at TC50?", "…Affective Interfaces…. Understanding emotional response with computers is a rich area." -Bradley Horowitz (Google VP Product)
Tim OReilly, TC50 panel "(Affective Interfaces) is the first one I’ve seen that actually seems like a business."
Kevin Rose, TC50 panel: "I thought it was awesome. I think that for focus groups or market research for entertainment like Jason mentioned for commercials I think this is going to be huge."
"This isn’t just cool technology, this is radically cool technology."-Brian Singerman, Founder’s Fund
"Affective Interfaces demo of @KevinRose facial expressions is awesome. It analyzes facial expressions for moods." Don Dodge, Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team
"We need reliable qualitative audience metrics. This technology is a nuclear bomb for advertising."
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"Every decade lately there's a new technology that sets the landscape. In the 2000s cheap sensors are making an interaction decade culminating in a robot takeoff."
Paul Saffo, Stanford
"Affective Interfaces demonstrated some cool new technology today that uses emotion sensing software with webcam footage. The company launched today at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco."
http://venturebeat.com/2009/09/15/tc50-affective-interfaces-detects-whether-your-ad-makes-people-happy/
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BENJAMIN SAX Affective Interfaces and Emotional Machines
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Even more interesting will be linking this type of technology to evolutionary algorithms, but that deserves its own post. Needless to say, finding a way to not only monitor but engage with our emotions in an immediate way could create some of the most effective media yet to be experienced, and also the most seductively terrifying.
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