'Emotion Recognition' Technology Can Read Your Feelings Through Your Face (Verizon Wireless Inc)

(Source: Verizon Wireless Inc) This exciting new tech has applications for health, shopping and more. In the future, your mobile device will become more than just a tool for making phone calls, texting, using apps and emailing. What you hold in the palm of your hand will deliver a more personalized experience, and part of that may involve emotion recognition technology. This is currently being used in certain sectors, most prominently the field of medicine. Or more specifically: telemedicine. One major player in the field is a company called Affectiva, which uses emotion recognition technology to evaluate your facial cues...