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Emotional Robots: Will We Love Them or Hate Them?
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1067/071009_Designing_Interactions_William_Gaver.large.jpg?1247251296&1247251295 "Professor William Gaver of Goldsmiths, University of London")
Professor William Gaver of Goldsmiths, University of London warns that emotion sensors could undermine personal relationships.
Credit: Designing Interactions
Scientists have theorized that many technologies would function better if they were aware of their users' emotional states, and progress in this field includes face- and voice-reading computer programs and wearable equipment that measures emotional engagement by reading perspiration, heart rate, movement, and breathing. Programs that can extrapolate emotions from facial expressions are capable of recognizing disgust, anger, happiness, sadness, fear, and surprise with a great degree of acc...
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