How does it make you feel? Wearable system predicts wearer's mood

By predicting moods, AI like this can help ease social interactions for people who find them difficult. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) have developed a wearable they say can predict the mood of its wearer by analyzing speech patterns and physiological signs. The system may someday serve as a social coach for people with anxiety or Asperger's syndrome. "Imagine if, at the end of a conversation, you could rewind it and see the moments when the people around you felt the most anxious," Tuka Alhanai, a CSAIL graduate student who worked on the project, said in a statement. "Our work is a step in this direction, suggesting that we may not be that far away from a world where people can have an AI social coach right in their pocket."