Robots May Soon Detect How You Feel By Touching Your Skin: Here’s How
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Robots are present in lives in different shape but with new advancement they can detect emotions by touching the person.
Robots have evolved and soon they can tell your emotion by touching your hand.
In today’s world, where people find it very difficult to find a person who understands them and knows how they feel, scientists are developing robots that will gauge your emotions just by touching your skin. Yes! You read that right. According to a recent study published in the journal IEEE Access, researchers used Skin Conductance to determine how a person was feeling. It is a measure of how well the skin conducts electricity, which often changes in response to sweat flow and nerve activity, indicating various human emotional states.
As per the scientists, Skin Conductance could overcome the errors of the traditional emotion-detection techniques such as facial recognition or speech analysis, which often fall due to poor audio or visual conditions.
“Skin conductance provides a potential workaround, providing a non-invasive way to capture emotion in real-time,” said the researchers.
The research and its findings
For the study, the scientists at the Tokyo Metropolitan University conducted research on 33 participants by showing them emotionally charged videos and monitoring their skin conductance. They discovered distinct patterns for various emotions such as:
Happiness or sadness: Emotions related to family bonding exhibited a mix of happiness and sadness among different participants, and showed slower responses. This could be due to the overlapping contrasting feelings.Fear: These responses were long-lasting, which as per the scientists is an evolutionary survival mechanism.Humour: These emotions were triggered quickly, but only for a shorter duration.“Despite the fact that high responsiveness is crucial for skin conductance, few studies have studied how the dynamics of skin conductance responses vary among moods,” the researchers said.
What does this mean?
These findings are expected to help build systems that can accurately evaluate emotions when paired with other physiological data. While the method isn’t perfect, researchers believe it has great potential. They recommend combining skin conductance with other physiological factors such as heart rate and brain activity to improve emotion detection accuracy.
This significant research could also lead robots to not just interact with humans in the future but could also empathise with them according to their mood. Notably, they could also respond to emotions that feels more human.
