May 5, 2005
EMotoPhone: MIT Project
Emotophone, a project by the MIT Speech Interface Group, adds a new dimension to cell phone interaction by allowing users to send personalized emoticons over the phone (or real pictures) to show how they are feeling, in order to augment verbal communication.
The EMotoPhone icons can also be sent independently, outside of the context of a conversation.
For example, if you are too busy to engage in a conversation,but you want to let someone know that you are thinking of them, you can send them an EMotoPhone wink. Using real faces for the EMotoPhone icons makes cell phone interaction richer, more personalized, and more fun!
Related:
-- Cell Phone with Feeling - Siemens has launched the CX70 Emoty on the UK market, a phone that lets its owners express their emotions and communicate these feelings to friends - as an emotional MMS together with text.
-- The future of affection - The shiny, wipe-clean future we are headed for may seem like a cold and uninviting place, but if existing technology is any guide then feelings and emotions are going to play a big part in this hi-tech world.
-- SMS hugs via Mobile Phone - HugsSMS is a device designed for sending someone you care about a hug using your mobile phone.
-- 'Emotive Alerts' on cellphones - Angry on a friend who is too busy to pick up the phone? Just leave a voice message and he will take the hint through an on-screen 'emotica' - a new age technological marvel from MIT.
-- Voicemail software recognises callers' emotions - MIT's Emotive Alert's voicemail system labels messages according to the caller's tone of voice and could be helping people identify which messages are urgent.
-- SMS with feeling - BT has developed new technology that takes mobile messaging to a new level where "actual emotions can be conveyed between family and friends in a physical and tactile way"
-- Lie detectors for cellphones - The Truster plugs into a phone - cellular or land-line - or a TV and can spot deceivers, even if they speak a foreign language.
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