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Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data–The latest “virtual therapist” — charged with helping diagnose depression — comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California. Their system of cameras and microphones analyzes a person’s gestures, facial expressions, body habitus, and vocalization — taking in 30 data points per second — then compares them to those of typical depressed and non-depressed people.
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May 25, 2013 at 10:54 am
FB has now blocked me out. Just thought I’d let you know. Guess big brother is really watching and not liking. Toni
May 25, 2013 at 11:58 am
Bummer. I may be next. Its been acting funny.
May 25, 2013 at 2:03 pm
First they went after the depressives, but I wasn’t a depressive, then they went after the creatives…
May 25, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Funny thing, I was just talking to a shrink about this kind of tech–imagining he and I both wearing google glasses with this kind of app. But then he hypnotized me and erased the thought from my head…