US and British researchers are making progress in developing computers that will have the ability to read part of your mind. The emotional part that is.

Computers are being developed to interpret your emotions through facial characteristic recognition techniqes. Researchers have discussed that this could benefit advertisers, such that they could target you with an ad when you are ready to receive it. Of course, everything computer related must have an advertising capability.

The real benefit with reading faces is not just in the reading, but in the translation. People transmit vast amounts of information non-verbally through their facial expressions. This information is lost when a person communicates with someone on the internet. This tool could benefit online instructors so that they could literally see the lightbulbs going off or the dark cloud of confusion when a student ‘gets it’ and when a student ‘gets lost.’

Similarly, technologies that push online meeting or chat rooms could interpret facial expressions and pass that information along to people on the other end, such that its not necessary to type in silly smily characters like :0 etc. The computer would read your expression and pass it along. If you are laughing Out Loud (LOL), then the computer would gather that info in and power up your simulated image on the other side to start laughing.

If you are playing online poker, you just turn the system off maybe, when you hit the ‘Poker Face’ Button.

Coming soon — mind-reading computers��Reuters.com

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