The Emotional Internet

Tapping Into The Emotional Internet

Gareth Price | August 23, 2015

Wearables currently decipher physiological biometrics: heart rate, pulse, caloric intake. But in the coming years, we’ll see emotion-sensing wearable technology that clues us into specific human emotions.
When this data is shared across networks, we’ll enter the dawn of the “Emotional Internet.”

The news media is filled with horror stories about young people and the Internet, but what is often overlooked and not reported are the benefits that technology, the Internet, and Social media have in building and enhancing social-emotional skills. Source: https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/using-the-internet-and-social-media-to-enhance-social-emotional-learning/

<more at http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/23/tapping-into-the-emotional-internet/; related links: http://www.affectiva.com/ (+Video) (What if you could make experiences better by knowing your audience’s emotional reaction?) and http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/vibe/ (Microsoft Research: VIBE. VIBE stands for “Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment”, and our group focuses primarily on topics in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information visualization.)>