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Rana El-Kaliouby
Chief strategy and science officer, Affectiva "Our devices will have an emotion chip, much like a GPS location chip. It will use optical sensors, and perhaps other sensors, to read your emotions - your facial expressions, tone of voice, your physiology. This chip will also drive actions in response to your emotions. My mirror could sense I am stressed, and communicate this to my social robot, car and wearable phone-watch-health device, so that these adjust the way they interact with me. In this mood-aware internet of things, the emotion chip - always activated with our permission - will make our technology interactions more genuine and human."
Winfried Hensinger
Professor of quantum technologies, University of Sussex
Denise Gershbein
Executive creative director, Frog Design
Charles M Lieber
Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
Andy Adamatzky
Director, Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West of England
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