Octavia, from the U.S. Navy Center for Applied Research, is a robot that was created to interact with people with the help of her movable mouth, eyeballs, eyelids, and eyebrows. Sadness, anger, confusion, excitement, and boredom are a few of the emotions that Octavia can express. (This image is in the public domain.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Rosalind W. Picard
MIT Course Number
MAS.630
As Taught In
Fall 2015
Level
Graduate
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Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course instructs students on how to develop technologies that help people measure and communicate emotion, that respectfully read and that intelligently respond to emotion, and have internal mechanisms inspired by the useful roles emotions play.
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