Emotional analysis technology developed by software solutions provider Opsis Emotion AI will be piloted over the next two years in a programme targeting more than 4,300 seniors in Singapore.
The programme will see a collaboration between Opsis and social services agency Lions Befrienders (LB). Through the use of Opsis' emotion analysis software, counsellers from LB are expected to be able to...
Amazon is building a wrist-worn device and accompanying app that listens to the wearer’s voice to identify their emotions, according to an anonymous source as well as internal documents acquired and reported on by Bloomberg.
The system, codenamed Dylan, is intended to be used as a health and wellness product, and might be adapted to provide the wearer guidance on how they may more effectively...
As virtual private assistants like Amazon’s Alexa become smarter, more popular and more useful, why not give it them tools to recognize emotions? That seems to be the thinking behind Israel-based Beyond Verbal, which makes voice recognition software to analyze human emotion and health indicators, releasing a cloud-based API engine to integrate with virtual private assistants (VPAs).
The intention...
Waltham, Massachusetts-based emotions analytics company Affectiva has raised $14 million in a round led by Fenox Venture Capital. The company intends to use the funding to continue to develop their Emotion AI platform and expand their operations globally.
In addition to the funding, the company announced a leadership change, with former CEO and president Nicholas Langeveld becoming chairman of...
Waltham, Massachusetts-based emotions analytics company Affectiva has launched a new offering, called Emotion as a Service, that allows organizations to track the emotions of people interacting with their digital product or service. Affectiva also released an updated version of its emotion-sensing SDK.
Affdex Emotion as a Service can be used by designers and developers who don't want to invest in...
Affectiva, a start-up that aims to quantifiably analyze emotions to improve consumer experiences, announced this week that it has received a $5.7 million second round of financing. The funding was led by WPP's insight group Kantar and Myrian Capital, who will now have seats on Affectiva’s board of directors. Affectiva was founded in 2009 by two MIT scientists and started as a research project on...
