The keyboard of the future will know just how you feel

[Brink]

Your feelings and emotions are revealed not just by what you type but how you type it. In the future, your PC could warn you if you're typing an angry memo or instant message and suggest you step away from the keyboard for a minute, and perhaps take a tea break.

Today's computers are simply tools, but tomorrow's could be "emotionally aware" systems. Researchers say: "If we could build any system that is intelligent enough to interact with humans that involves emotions, that is, it can detect user emotions and change its behaviour accordingly, then using machines could be more effective and friendly."

Nazmul Haque Nahin, Jawad Mohammad Alam, Hasan Mahmud and Kamrul Hasan from the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh explored the topic by measuring what users typed, and asking them to indicate their emotional state. A pop-up window gave them a choice of nine tick boxes: the standard ISEAR (International Survey on Emotion Antecedents and Reactions) emotional classes of joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, and guilt, plus two extra ones: neutral and tired.

Read more at: The keyboard of the future will know just how you feel | ZDNet

 

[Layback Bear]

I like my new keyboard and my new computer but I don't want them to know.
So I think I will pass on such programs.

 

[King Arthur]

Keyboard: "Hello Dave, it seems you are raging from losing the game and typing angrily. Maybe you should take a break?"
Dave: AERHEWUIHFAGBDHFBHADS *KEYBOARD SMASH*

Or something along those lines, is what I expect would happen if such a keyboard were in the hands of a raging gamer.

 

[Stephanie]

Wonder what the Keyboard would think to a sexy email to your Boyfriend / Girlfriend

 

[lehnerus2000]

Or something along those lines, is what I expect would happen if such a keyboard were in the hands of a raging gamer.

People don't have to be "Gaming" to "Rage Quit".

 

[ThrashZone]

Possibly it would disable caps lock for me

Too sexy for my keyboard

 

[Borg 386]

Is there a category for "I had a couple drinks?" That could actually come in handy.....

KB: NO! NO! I AM NOT POSTING THAT COMMENT. YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY DRUNK! GO TO BED! NOW!

 

[Layback Bear]

Wonder what the Keyboard would think to a sexy email to your Boyfriend / Girlfriend

The keyboard would get longer keys and perspire and have a desire for a smoke.
Pall Mall's in my keyboards case.

 

[Stephanie]

Wonder what the Keyboard would think to a sexy email to your Boyfriend / Girlfriend

The keyboard would get longer keys and perspire and have a desire for a smoke.
Pall Mall's in my keyboards case.

:roflmao:..

 

[Arelem]

Wonder what the Keyboard would think to a sexy email to your Boyfriend / Girlfriend

The keyboard would get longer keys and perspire and have a desire for a smoke.
Pall Mall's in my keyboards case.

:roflmao:..

I can see it moaning every time you hit Tab, Backslash or the Space Bar