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Apple and Johnson & Johnson announced a new "Heartline" study to research atrial fibrillation and to find out if the Apple Watch can be used to detect signs of stroke early. 
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Voices are highly personal, hard to fake, and contain surprising information about our mental health and behaviors.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Emotions in the voice are down the road of the Emotional process. This begins through Central Nervous System and Autonomous Nervous System which triggers physiological reaction. These reactions are very instantaneous and closed to the triggering event, compared to Behavior Analysis through voice recognition or facial coding.
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Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions.
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That's a great news to see that Amazon is entering the Affective Computing field. We are on something big !
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ENTRETIEN. La chercheuse française Laurence Devillers réagit aux propos-chocs de l'investisseur Kai-Fu Lee, premier président de Google en Chine, parus dans « Le Point ».
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Wearing the Affect-tag band, Olivier Janin, CEO of Neotrope, tracked how his emotions fluctuated with practice performances of a pitch to potential investors. The goal was to track the digitized emotional data to determine what “practice makes perfect” looks like emotionally. The results were illuminating and left us eager to integrate emotional biofeedback for skill …
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Since 2008 we have been researching and engineering solutions based on Neurosciences that make human emotions digitally readable. Analysts predict that the Affective Computing Market-size will reach 50B€ in 2023*, and we are feeling an active development in the business fields. As we wanted to confirm our observations, we launched a poll on Linked-in last …
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The interest in improving the sustained use of wearables goes beyond employer programs, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study. It also applies to data collection for precision medicine initiatives to better target interventions. Via Richard Platt
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October 2, 2017 12:53 AM
Quantifying the effectiveness of wearables to increase activity within the framework of a payer or employer wellness program has been the source of more than a few studies. Can financial incentives from these groups also steer participants to the desired outcome? Will participants be sufficiently engaged to use these wearables over a long period of time? What are some of the characteristics of the longer term users? This area has been a topic of interest for Dr. Mitesh Patel, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School as well as director of Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit. But the interest in improving the sustained use of wearables goes beyond employer programs, according to the Annals of Internal Medicine study. It also applies to data collection for precision medicine initiatives to better target interventions. In what Patel said is the largest study of its kind to evaluate the stickiness of wearables in a step counting program, 4.4 million Humana wellness program members were invited to take part. Of those, 55,000 actually downloaded the relevant app for the study, which was published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers analyzed data for a two-year period from 2014-2015 and tracked when participants first activated their activity tracker, how frequently the device was used in the first six months following activation, average daily step counts and sociodemographic characteristics, according to a news release from Penn. In a phone interview Patel said he was struck that although 0.2 percent used the devices in year one, that rose to 1.2 percent in year two. In six months, 80 percent of the people who started using the device were still using it.
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When it comes to software, Garmin Connect is one of the most comprehensive platforms out there. While the app and web dashboard might lack in intuitiveness, they certainly don’t lack in detail. With the latest update, Garmin has now thrown in a few more features.
Olivier Janin's insight:
It is strange to me how major brands, like Garmin, Apple and Google, are communicating around there Data Visualisation and Social Sharing features as if they were new. Historical innovators, like Jawbone, Nike Fuel, Runkeeper, Runtastic, already released such features with a strong UX/UI designs, and it was in 2010. It looks like Fitness and Health Data tracking services are trying to convince the consumers with the same value proposals, trying to find the key arguments to generate a solid growth and a massive adoption. It is time for Wearables to re-invent themselves.
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MIT's Researchers Tuka AlHanai andMohammad Mahdi Ghassemi built an algorithm that can analyze speech and tone. This data is crunched to work out what emotion a person is roughly feeling for every five second block of conversation.
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MIT's students used a Samsung Simband (Samsung SDK) and crossed voice and Heart Rate signals treatment.
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February 16, 2017 12:17 PM
MIT's students used a Samsung Simband (Samsung SDK) and crossed voice and Heart Rate signals treatment.
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Facebook could one day build facial gesture controls for its app thanks to the acquisition of a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company called..
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The use-cases are first dedicated to photo and video features. Facebook and Snapchat racing competition. There are also potential in VR area. With the challenge to make the user face "readable" as he wears the VR mask. No information on the transaction amount.
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November 17, 2016 6:52 AM
The use-cases are first dedicated to photo and video features. Facebook and Snapchat racing competition. There are also potential in VR area. With the challenge to make the user face "readable" as he wears the VR mask. No information on the transaction amount.
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A silicon valley startup wants you to have one less charger in your life thanks to its exercise-tracking smartwatch design that allows a wearable device to be powered via the user's own body heat.
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The third annual 'Future of Dating' report predicts an increasing use of smart technology in data gathering and online matchmaking.
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Fitbit was punished this week on Wall Street by shaving off 33% of the stock value this week. This was mainly due to investors disappointment with lagging sales. Last year sales increased by 92% in the fourth quarter and expectations were released that sales were going to remain steady compared to last year which was not well received in the Stock Market. Only on Wall Street, would maintaining 25% of the Fitness Tracker market and the same strong sales numbers as last year be bad news.
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Olivier Janin's insight:
Part of the challenge lays on the cognitive assessment of learning people. How is their engagement changing over the interaction with the knowledge transmission ? Are they emotionally impacted by the content ? That's where we want to help. By enabling Real-time emotional indicators, we can help education providers to deliver adaptative personalized experiences. And improve the success of learners !
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New technologies are recognizing and learning human emotions, and using that knowledge to improve everything from marketing campaigns to health care.
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The controversy around the last season of Game of Thrones has been divisive: people seem to either love it or hate it. Still, something we can all agree on is that the most watched final season ever produced a wide range of emotions. We were curious as to how those emotions would manifest and so …
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Garmin announced today that it will be adding menstrual cycle tracking to its line of trackers and smartwatches. The new feature gives users the ability to log symptoms and track cycles, and offers up additional context by way of Garmin Connect, the company’s mobile app. The addition follows a similar feature instituted by Fitbit, roughly […]
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Sony’s new Wena smartwatch straps are a unique idea to bring smart features to your existing watch.
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Emotion-sensing technologies can lead to better decisions and alleviate stress — if privacy issues are addressed.
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Après l’avoir fait pour les publications puis les conversations Messenger, Facebook permet à ses utilisateurs de mieux exprimer leurs sentiments à propos des commentaires. De quoi en apprendre encore plus sur eux.
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« Vous aimez… ? Vous aimerez… » Combien de fois avez-vous lu cette question et sa réponse en regard de la grille télé, du joli pull blanc sur tel site de mode ? Et si cette question n’était concrètement plus posée,
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February 16, 2017 12:16 PM
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Fitbit is in advanced talks to acquire Pebble, the smartwatch pioneer and darling of crowdfunding site Kickstarter, the Financial Times reports.
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Just one insight : buy a Pebble before it is too late.
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Hurdl is a text-based platform that creates one-to-one communication between attendees and hosts. On November 2 at the 50th Annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, a new tech product debuted that offers a different way for planners to communicate directly with their attendees.
Olivier Janin's insight:
Event sharing features are definitely interesting to explore in terms of Application fields.
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Being able to measure emotional responses will with no doubt lead to the biggest paradigm shift in the history of marketing.
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The worldwide smartwatch market experienced a round of growing pains in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), resulting in a year-over-year decline in shipment volumes. According to data from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, total smartwatch volumes reached 2.7 million units shipped in 3Q16, a decrease of 51.6% from the 5.6 million units shipped in 3Q15.
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Interesting to observe how Apple is moving constantly and with great caution in health-related use-cases.