Rana el Kaliouby: This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face
رنا القليوبي: هذا التطبيق يعرف ما تشعر به من تعبير وجهك
What if a computer could recognize your facial expression, and react to how you feel? Rana el Kaliouby sees big possibilities in making technology emotionally aware. Full bio
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every aspect of our lives,
to how we do business and make decisions,
إلى كيفية تأدية أعمالنا واتخاذنا للقرارات
how we connect with one another.
in a world like this,
more and more of our lives like this --
بهذا الشكل --
from my daughter last night --
أرسلتها لي ابنتي الليلة الماضية --
back into our digital experiences.
a Ph.D. program at Cambridge University.
بجامعة كامبريدج.
who had to stay in Egypt,
away from home,
more hours with my laptop
had absolutely no idea how I was feeling.
لم يكن لدى حاسوبي أية فكرة عما أشعر به.
أو أنني مرهقة، قلقة،
online with my family back home,
disappeared in cyberspace.
في الفضاء الإلكتروني.
and on some days I was actually crying,
بل إني كنت أبكي في بعض الأيام،
these emotions was this.
has lots of I.Q., but no E.Q.;
لكنها تفتقد للمشاعر؛
but no emotional intelligence.
لكن دون ذكاء عاطفي.
could sense our emotions?
إدراك مشاعرنا؟
how we felt and reacted accordingly,
وتتفاعل معنا على أساسها،
intelligent friend would?
and respond to our emotions,
على قراءة مشاعرنا والتفاعل معها،
one of the most powerful channels
social and emotional states,
عن حالاتنا الاجتماعية والعاطفية،
facial muscle movement an action unit.
بالحركة كوحدة قياس.
which is the main component of a smile.
some smiles going on.
دعونا نرسم بعض البسمات.
It's the brow furrow.
تقطيب الجبين.
these textures and wrinkles.
a strong indicator of a negative emotion.
لكنها علامة قوية على مشاعر سلبية.
hundreds of emotions.
these facial emotions is hard,
they can be fast, they're subtle,
إنها خفية،
the smile and the smirk.
البسمة العادية والصفراء.
but they mean very different things.
لكنهما بمعنيين جد مختلفين.
can make you become famous.
for a computer to be able
من المهم أن يكون الحاسوب قادراً
between the two expressions.
of people we know to be smiling,
نعلم أنهم يبتسمون بحق،
textures and wrinkles
على جميع تلك الأخاديد والخطوط
have common characteristics,
لديها مميزات مشتركة،
different characteristics.
لديها مميزات مختلفة خفية.
characteristics of a smile,
لديه نفس مميزات البسمة العادية،
This is a smile expression."
how this technology works
لتوضيح كيفية عمل هذه التقنية
preferably somebody with a face.
ومن الأفضل أن يمتلك وجهاً.
from being a research project at MIT
مشروع بحث بمعهد ماساتشوستس للتقنية
to make this technology work,
the core emotion engine
كهذا الآي باد.
with a camera, like this iPad.
has essentially found Cloe's face,
حددت الخوارزمية تقاسيم وجه كلوي
feature points on her face,
her mouth and her nose.
can it recognize her expression?
هل ستتمكن من التعرف على تعابير وجهها؟
Yep, awesome. (Laughter)
نعم، رائع. (ضحك)
this is a genuine smile, it's great.
go up as she smiles.
كلما ابتسمت.
to see if the computer can recognize?
لنرى إن كان الحاسوب سيتعرف عليها؟
to make that happen.
indicator of surprise.
an indicator of confusion.
action units. There's many more of them.
وهناك العديد منها.
an emotion data point,
بنقطة بيانات عاطفية،
to portray different emotions.
تقدم لنا علامات عن مختلف المشاعر.
look like you're happy.
يبدو أنك سعيدة.
when Zayn left One Direction.
فرقة ون دايركشن.
negative, so you must have been a big fan.
لابد وأنك معجبة كبيرة.
or negative an experience is,
إيجابية أو سلبية،
expressive she is as well.
to this real-time emotion stream,
البيانات العاطفية المباشرة،
with anybody she wanted to.
12 billion of these emotion data points.
12 مليار نقطة بيانات عاطفية تلك.
database in the world.
from 2.9 million face videos,
to share their emotions with us,
as personal as our emotions,
قياس شيء شخصي كمشاعرنا،
that you might suspect.
their smiles last longer,
بل لوقت أطول أيضاً
what it is that men and women
الرجال والنساء
more expressive than men,
in the U.K. between men and women.
أنهما متساويان في المملكة المتحدة.
than younger people.
than men the same age,
من الرجال في نفس السن،
the most about this data
to be expressive all the time,
in front of our devices alone,
cat videos on Facebook.
مشاهدة فيديوهات القطط على الفيسبوك.
texting, shopping online,
أو التسوق على الإنترنت
and voting behavior;
or emotion-enabling technology,
that are especially close to my heart.
بعض الأمثلة العزيزة على قلبي.
can help individuals
read the faces of others,
on the autism spectrum interpret emotion,
if your learning apps
تخيلوا إن كانت تطبيقاتكم التعليمية
would in a classroom.
knows that you're stressed,
from binge eating. (Laughter)
(ضحك)
emotion stream,
back home in a very natural way,
in the same room together?
في الغرفة نفسها؟
to have an emotion chip,
when we couldn't just frown at our device
you didn't like that, did you?"
"أنت لا تحب هذا، أليس كذلك؟"
so many applications of this technology,
طرق متعددة لاستعمال هذه التقنية،
build them all ourselves,
بأنه لا يمكننا ابتكارها جميعا بمفردنا،
so that other developers
there are potential risks
many years doing this,
وبعد أن قضيت عدة سنوات في هذا العمل،
intelligent technology
part of the conversation.
about this technology,
على هذه التقنية أكبر
in how it's being used.
of our lives become digital,
trying to curb our usage of devices
بمحاولتنا للحد من استخدام الأجهزة
is to bring emotions into our technology
هو تمكين أجهزتنا من المشاعر
that have separated us
we have this golden opportunity
connect with machines,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rana el Kaliouby - Computer scientistWhat if a computer could recognize your facial expression, and react to how you feel? Rana el Kaliouby sees big possibilities in making technology emotionally aware.
Why you should listen
Rana el Kaliouby, chief science officer and co-founder of Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is on a mission to bring emotion intelligence to our digital experiences. She leads the company's emotion analytics team, which is responsible for developing emotion-sensing algorithms and mining the world's largest emotion data database. So far, they've collected 12 billion emotion data points from 2.9 million face videos from volunteers in 75 countries. The company’s platform is used by many Fortune Global 100 companies to measure consumer engagement, and is pioneering emotion-enabled digital apps for enterprise, entertainment, video communication and online education.
Entrepreneur magazine called el Kaliouby one of “The 7 Most Powerful Women To Watch in 2014,” and the MIT Technology Review included her in their list of the “Top 35 Innovators Under 35.”
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