IEEE news: Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits

Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits
In order to make human-computer interaction more natural and friendly, computer engineers are currently working on a way to give computers a more personal touch. By combining audio and visual data, Yongjin Wang, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have developed a system that recognizes six human emotional states: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. "Human-centered computing focuses on understanding humans, including recognition of face, emotions, gestures, speech, body movements, etc.," said Wang. "Emotion recognition systems help the computer to understand the affective state of the user, and hence the computer can respond accordingly based on that perception." Their system can recognize emotions in people from different cultures and who speak different languages with a success rate of 82%. Read more Learn more about human-computer interaction in IEEE Xplore®