The project’s major goal to start Intelligent Room and Emotional Agents (robots that could understand human emotion) was to enter the computer into the real-world so that they could cooperate according to human needs. A layer-based architecture with vision capabilities is built to determine whether humans are talking to each other or the intelligent room itself. Browser software and an agent was used to construct the overall interface. It can be used in medicine to monitor frustration, pain, or stress condition. Read more

March, 1998