Technology and My Attention Span

Rosalind W. Picard, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Co-Director of Things That Think offers a great bit of technologic common sense. How hard would it be to create a technology interface that recognizes your mood and attention? Apparently not very. The premise is simple enough - recognition software that takes a continues series of measurements (feature point tracking, head pose estimation etc.) to accurately determine your emotional state and level of engagement. This could have a very wide application - from autistic people to editing software. Imagine a real time editor that understands when you're not comprehending (or paying attention to) what you're reading.