emotions
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Forget VR Sex: Here’s How Tech Will Actually Change Your Love Life
Our technologies are rapidly evolving, and with it, the very nature of our personal lives. Here’s how the era of tech-enabled intimacy will forever change the way we go about forming and maintaining relationships.
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Facebook Experimented On Random Users To Study News Feed Emotions
Spend time with a Debbie Downer, and you’ll likely end up feeling blue. Turns out, the same is true digitally: Facebook’s new study says this “emotional contagion” works just as strongly through your News Feed — which they discovered after tinkering with the emotional content of nearly 700,000 random users’ feeds.
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Where Emotions Hit You, Visualised
Nerves make your stomach churn; embarrassment brings a glow to your cheeks. Emotions clearly have a direct physiological effect on our bodies, and now a team of Finnish researchers has analysed exactly how — and represented them in this visualisation.
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How Your Video Game Character Could Soon Share Your Rage Face
You spent hours tweaking your Xbox or Nintendo avatar to look exactly like you, but researchers at the EPFL are taking things one step further with a Kinect-based system that can translate your facial expressions and emotions to your online persona. So the next time you’re cursing into your headset after a loss in Halo,…