![]() | by Jetty van Kooij on 10 Dec 2009 in Business News |
Summary: AIDA reads driver's mood from facial expressions and other cues and incorporates real-time city information
AIDA is one of the latest intelligent driving virtual agents which aims to change the way we interact with our car and communicates with the driver through a small robot embedded in the dashboard. AIDA is a sociable robot, which reads the driver’s mood from facial coding and through emotion capturing and responds in a socially appropriate and informative way.
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Read more about: Audi and MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)
![]() | by Erwin Van Lun on 5 Jun 2009 in Business News |
Summary: MS Project Natal: New XBox addon, your body is the controller. Voice recognition. Gesture recognition. Face recognition. Awesome!
Microsoft’s Project Natal delivers a new addon to your XBox that allows you to play without controller. The system has a 3D camera that maps the exacts position of your hands, your fingers, your feet, your header, your nose, everything in a 3D map. This allows you to control the game with only your body, in great detail, and no controller needed. Furthermore, it recognises voice and faces and supports complex video chat.
Read more about: Xbox update: Full body and gesture recognition