Dogs mouth-lick to communicate with angry humans
Animal behaviour researchers in the UK and Brazil have found that dogs lick their mouths as a response to angry human faces, according to new study.
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Apple iPhone X strikes viral gold with 'Animoji Karaoke'
Earlier this year, Apple spun off the viral late-night show skit "Carpool Karaoke" to a full-blown TV show exclusive on Apple Music. The show received mixed reviews critically and never took off commercially.
Dogs are more expressive when someone is looking
Dogs produce more facial expressions when humans are looking at them, according to new research from the University of Portsmouth.
New developments enabling blind people to see again
Enabling blind people to see again is the dream of many neuroscientists. We still have a long way to go to make this happen, but we have also made a lot of progress over the last twenty years, says Richard van Wezel of the ...
Toyota to highlight reading of driver emotions at Tokyo show
Driving sleepy? Hungry? Toyota will be highlighting an array of experimental technologies aimed at improving safety and anticipating drivers' desires at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month.
Research sparks new way to predict movie-goers' facial expressions
Researchers in SFU's School of Computing Science have been working with Disney Research to develop a new way to assess and predict the facial expressions of movie goers. This method could help to make artificial data created ...
Star Trek-style communicator hopes to break down cultural barriers
In Star Trek, the technology to instantly translate any language was first developed in the late 22nd century, but today researchers are already working on ways to take universal communication even further.
Neural nets model audience reactions to movies
Disney Research used deep learning methods to develop a new means of assessing complex audience reactions to movies via facial expressions and demonstrated that the new technique outperformed conventional methods.
Animal emotions stare us in the face—are our pets happy?
Scientists are starting to be able to accurately read animal facial expressions and understand what they communicate.
Robots to help children with autism
New research involving the University of Portsmouth is aiming to develop robots to help children with autism in ways humans can't.
