Rana el Kaliouby Quotes
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I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.
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Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.
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I will occasionally take power naps on weekends and agree that they can be re-energizing.
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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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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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If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.
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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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People who have a higher EQ (Emotional Quotient) lead more successful professional and personal lives, are healthier, and even live longer.
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We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.
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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 own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.
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We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.
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Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.
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I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?
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As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.
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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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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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Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.
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Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.
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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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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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In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
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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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We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.