Rosalind Wright Picard (born 1962) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist who serves as the Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, where she directs the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and who co-founded the startups Affectiva and Empatica. She is credited with establishing the field of affective computing through her 1997 book of the same name, and her research develops systems that measure emotion through wearable technology, computer vision and audio analysis, including devices that help people with autism recognize facial expressions and emotional cues. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
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Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper and 1997 book originated the modern field of affective computing.
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the modern idea originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper entitled "Affective Computing" and her 1997 book of the same name
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