0:00:04roslyn welcome to the shell
0:00:06in q closer and maybe our viewers at home a little bit about the mit
0:00:11media lab and the kinds of things that you're involved
0:00:16sure i'm i don't professor here at mit media lab in cambridge massachusetts
0:00:21i directory search and a half that of computing that's within a
0:00:26and we focus on building new technologies that help with the measurement and communication our
0:00:33emotional information
0:00:36this
0:00:37first blush
0:00:39sounds like things to do with faces and voices and it does of but it
0:00:43also turns out to be involved in things that affect our general health as well
0:00:47and it's really remarkable especially take into consideration individuals running artisans spectrum and how they
0:00:54can benefit from it and in fact you have an entire initiative there that have
0:00:59to do with technology communication not as a correct
0:01:02yes we're been extremely interested and making technologies that how people who have various kinds
0:01:09of communication challenges
0:01:12and a we you have a ten talk that's really remarkable i can imagine how
0:01:17exciting it is to do attend talking to be able to share the information that
0:01:21you have and in your type talk you are talk about these bracelets the can
0:01:26measure emotion correct
0:01:28organisation from show you want my the main goal right now
0:01:32i like a
0:01:33in front of like that would be of the so are you taking data right
0:01:37now is your speaking to us about your emotional state
0:01:41i've been collecting at all week here here's a one of wireless sensors are okay
0:01:46here
0:01:47when you
0:01:48measures of three things that measures can connections accelerometer in temperature from the surface of
0:01:54the scan and together these start together picture of your both your activity and it
0:02:01look at higher environment and you're autonomic stress
0:02:05and then you started to use this in conjunction with individuals are on the spectrum
0:02:10of it while they're having very correct
0:02:13we in fact it was originally individuals of the spectrum that inspired us to go
0:02:17back to this technology and try to make it more of a communication tool
0:02:23people in the spectrum are telling us that i well we had heard you know
0:02:27they have trouble understanding emotion in many of them are saying well actually it's our
0:02:31emotions that you're misunderstanding
0:02:34and we could use a little bit more helping better understood
0:02:38so in our spirit of always developing technology could well you know with the user
0:02:43right not trying pretend we know what they need but wanting to really truly understand
0:02:47what's needed and really trying to listen you known to many people who were non
0:02:52speaking about were typing or finding other ways to let us know what they wanted
0:02:57you know they said they may need to be better understood when they were stressed
0:03:00or experiencing sensory overload or experiencing you know and
0:03:05you know problems with environments that other before noticing
0:03:09for what we can measure that we can show people that
0:03:12and then you can change things according to it as can't you because for especially
0:03:16for kids that are as verbal not as vocal sometimes we don't we don't know
0:03:22what's happening but this gives a sixty to understand
0:03:27it gives a piece of the missing information i have to say to it doesn't
0:03:31necessarily tell you how to fix the problem it will tell you for example a
0:03:35person goes in room in the signal goes up and
0:03:39and maybe the real many goes to anna nicole or because of that can tell
0:03:42you hey there's probably something about this room that's causing this and then you can
0:03:45start debugging on the floor supply is that person over there is that the smell
0:03:50you know again we don't tell you the actual cause of the stressed
0:03:55for the what to do to solve it but we tell you that something significant
0:04:00change your and
0:04:01i do you do you