However, your poker facial expression may be, your Wi-Fi router very soon be able to tell how you feel. A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a device that can efficiently and promptly measure any human inner emotional states using wireless signals. For this emotion recognition, the dubbed EQ-Radio measures breathe and heartbeat to find out the feelings of a person like happy, excited, angry or sad.
EQ-Radio emits and captures the reflected radio frequency (RF) wave, and this data then run through a bunch of algorithms and a machine-learning process programmed to match a person’s behavior and four emotional states: Joy, Pleasure, Sadness, and Anger.
The exciting part of this wireless technique of EQ-Radio is that you don’t need to wear any sort of monitoring device or on-body sensor.
EQ-Radio uses the same carrier frequency as Wi-Fi, but with about 1,000 times less power so that the system could be integrated into an existing Wi-Fi router or other devices. EQ-Radio has an application in various fields:
- Doctors, use it to diagnose mental health conditions like depression or bipolar disorder
- movie makers and advertisers, use it to better evaluate people’s reactions to their work in real time
- It could also integrate into smart homes, adjust temperature, lighting, and music automatically to match the user’s mood
For getting more info regarding this article, you can also read the research paper on http://eqradio.csail.mit.edu/files/eqradio-paper.pdf and boost up your ideas on it.