Emotion Detection

A young startup company, Affective Interfaces,  has been working on some interesting technology to aid market research and improve on focus group type research.  This could be some fairly significant breakthrough technology that I could see applied to many different applications such as web meeting (WebEx, Go To Meeting, etc…) tools to help presenters know if their audiences are paying attention and engaged.  Anyone who’s been on a web conference knows that even with the small video, it’s tough to gauge reactions, body language etc…  This could bring web conferencing that much closer to being like being in the same room.