Affectiva Helps Machines Understand Human Emotions

This is part of a series on machine intelligence companies. We interviewed Beagle, Mariana, Beyond Verbal, Preteckt, and Eigen Innovations. Machines don't know what it's like to have feelings. Yet for most of us, emotions are the prism through which we view our lives. What seems like a benign request when we're in a good mood can seem like nagging when we're stressed. We tolerate jokes from our loved ones that we'd never suffer from someone we can't stand.