It’s time to learn a new term: emotion as a service. That comes to us courtesy of Affectiva, which on Tuesday released Affdex Emotion as a Service, making emotion-recognition technology available on demand for healthcare and other industries.
“For the first time ever, with Affdex Emotion as a Service, we are making emotion data very accessible by providing easy and inexpensive analysis of human emotions: video in, emotion analytics out,” Affectiva Chief Strategy and Science Officer Rana el Kaliouby said in a company statement.
Customers upload images or data of human faces from cameras or optical sensors, which Affectiva then analyzes for emotions, including, anger, sadness, disgust, joy surprise, fear and contempt. “Powered with unique emotion data, designers, developers and researchers can truly bring emotional intelligence to the digital world,” el Kaliouby said.
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Affectiva also introduced version 2.0 of its Affdex software development kit, which the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company is the only emotion-sensing SDK for building Apple iOS, Android and Windows apps.
The new release contains more expression models — a total of 15 “facial action units,” according to Affectiva — and is said to be more accurate than the earlier version.
As MedCity reported in July, some telemedicine companies have begun embedding this emotion-recognition technology into their own platforms.
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