Lost the Remote? Use Your Face 88
coondoggie writes "A researcher has discovered a way to use facial expressions to speed and slow video playback.
By using a combination of facial expression recognition software and automated tutoring technology Jacob Whitehill, a computer science Ph.D. student from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is leading the project that ultimately is part of a larger venture to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers.
The researchers recently conducted a pilot test with 8 people that demonstrated information within the facial expressions people make while watching recorded video lectures can be used to predict a person's preferred viewing speed of the video and how difficult a person perceives the lecture at each moment in time."
I can't wait (Score:5, Interesting)
Great. Then you'll know when the kids who grew up with this technology get bored -- they'll subconsciously start to make the "fast forward" facial expression.
And when they mishear something, they'll make the "rewind" face.
I can't wait. It'll be hilarious.
Re:Obvious use (Score:3, Interesting)
This kind of feedback could have astounding implications when you consider a 'porn tree' that viewers branch down based on their unconscious response to the stimulus before them.
It might be just a small part of robotic teaching, but it could be industry changing for cyber-porn if someone actually developed the 'porn tree' and could get actors to play out a scene a couple of dozen ways with varying camera angles etc.
Re:I can't wait---not a Haiku (Score:3, Interesting)
go threw it?
my mind explodes and i cringe
the clip fast forwards
What a waste! (Score:3, Interesting)
Hand gesture recognition makes a lot more sense.