Watching you Watching Me
For people who use video chat services to catch up with someone close—a beloved grandma or dear friend—it’s pretty easy to read the cues and reactions of a familiar face.
But in video chats among a group of people, say a business meeting among different offices, reading and correctly interpreting the facial cues of others can be difficult.
Now a Waltham company’s software is being used in a video system to analyze the facial reactions of participants to deduce their emotional state in real-time. The emotion-gauging software, Affdex from Affectiva Inc., is layered inside the Intelligent Video group chat system from ooVoo LLC, a New York firm.
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