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Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a

Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a meeting, it’s running over, and I am starting to panic because if I don’t leave the office right this second, I will be – yet again – late picking my kids up from school.
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We can read your heart rate from a webcam without you wearing anything – we can just use the reflection of your face, which shows blood flow.
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Like many, I am often in back-to-back meetings most of the day.
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The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.
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We’re not interested in applications where you’re spying on people.
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I discovered that as a founder and now CEO, my commitment to and passion for Affectiva is super contagious. It is contagious with my team and at internal company meetings, injecting a new energy and sense of camaraderie.
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As more and more of our lives become digital, we are fighting a losing battle trying to curb our usage of devices in order to reclaim our emotions. So what I’m trying to do instead is to bring emotions into our technology and make our technologies more responsive.
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Remember, don’t let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.
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By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.
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You won’t remember what it was like when your technology didn’t recognize when you are sad or angry.
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I do believe that if we have information about your emotional experiences, we can help you be in a more positive mood and influence your wellness.
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Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.
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When a woman on your team or in your network comes up with an idea, make sure she gets credit for it.
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With every technology, there will be misuses of it.
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Emotions don’t disrupt our rational thinking but guide and inform it. But they are missing from our digital experience. Your smartphone knows who you are and where you are, but it doesn’t know how you feel. We aim to fix that.
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We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they’re not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.
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I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.
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Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.
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My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.
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I’ve found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important – a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.
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I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.
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I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.
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I’m a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
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I see that our emotional AI technology can be a core component of online learning systems – health wearables, even.
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Make sure you give credit to those technologies adjacent to your own – even if they are your competitors.
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At Affectiva, we hire top talent – and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.
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Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world’s largest emotion data repository.
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Success is rarely about having the best, the most, or the cheapest features in a product. Instead, it is almost always about knowing what matters to your sponsor in a client or partner account and delivering on that.
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In online learning environments, it is often hard to tell whether a student is struggling. By the time test scores are lagging, it’s often too late – the student has already quit.
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I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.
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In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.
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I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on

I am part of the World Economic Forum Global Council on Robotics and AI, and we spend a fair amount of our time together as a group discussing ethics, best practices, and the like.
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You want to know if people are resonating with your ad before it goes live and before you spend millions and millions of dollars. With our software, you can get a moment-by-moment readout of a viewer’s emotional journey.
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Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.
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There’s a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that’s with you a lot of the time, and there’s a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.
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I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.
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In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there’s no difference between men and women.
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Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report.
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I think, in the future, we’ll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.
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Integrity and being ethical is one of Affectiva’s core values. This means we hold the highest standards for all we do, especially in our science and products.
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On the path to ubiquity of AI, there will be many ethics-related decisions that we, as AI leaders, need to make. We have a responsibility to drive those decisions, not only because it is the right thing to do for society but because it is the smart business decision.
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To be successful, it is imperative that you not only know the organizations you work with, but more specifically, you have to know the actual people you work with within these organizations, understand what their personal goals and motivations are. In short, to be successful, you need to humanize your clients.
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You can understand so much about how consumers perceive a brand by analyzing their spontaneous, subconscious responses.
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The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.
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