Affective Computing Quotes

We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.

I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.

With Emotion AI, we can inject humanity back into our connections, enabling not only our devices to better understand us, but fostering a stronger connection between us as individuals.

Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.

I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.

Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

Emotions don't disrupt our rational thinking but guide and inform it. But they are missing from our digital experience. Your smartphone knows who you are and where you are, but it doesn't know how you feel. We aim to fix that.

You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

Emotion AI will be ingrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic, and interactive.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.