Emailing angry? Your keyboard feels your pain

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2984, 2014, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Communicating emotion through type can be hard but that could be about to change. By measuring the way someone is typing--the speed, rhythm and how often they use backspace--and then combining that information with an emotional analysis of the typed text, a computer program has been able to predict how they are feeling with 80% accuracy. Nazmul Haque Nahin and colleagues at the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh asked volunteers to type phrases presented to them on a screen, including passages from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tested on different emotions, the program successfully detected joy 87% of the time, while anger was identified 81% of the time.