{"id":202707,"date":"2024-12-29T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/robots-might-be-able-to-sense-human-feelings-just-by-touching-skin-scientists-claim"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:31:03","slug":"robots-might-be-able-to-sense-human-feelings-just-by-touching-skin-scientists-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/robots-might-be-able-to-sense-human-feelings-just-by-touching-skin-scientists-claim","title":{"rendered":"Robots Might Be Able To Sense Human Feelings Just By Touching Skin, Scientists Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-might-be-able-to-sense-human-feelings-just-by-touching-skin-scientists-claim2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that future robots might be able to gauge how you are feeling by just touching human skin. According to a new study published in the journal <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639\" rel=\"Noindex, nofollow\"><em>IEEE Access,<\/em><\/a> researchers used skin conductance as a way to figure out how an individual was feeling. Skin conductance is a measure of how well skin conducts electricity, which usually changes in response to sweat secretion and nerve activity, signifying different human emotional states.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional emotion-detection technologies such as facial recognition and speech analysis, are often prone to error, especially in suboptimal audio-visual conditions. However, scientists believe that skin conductance offers a potential workaround, providing a non-invasive way to capture emotion in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, the emotional responses of 33 participants were measured by showing them emotionally evocative videos and measuring their skin conductance. The findings revealed distinct patterns for different emotions: fear responses were the longest-lasting, suggesting an evolutionary alert mechanism; family bonding emotions, a blend of happiness and sadness, showed slower responses; and humour triggered quick but fleeting reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more. Scientists have discovered that future robots might be able to gauge how you are feeling by just touching human skin. According to a new study published in the journal IEEE Access, researchers used skin conductance as a way to figure out how an individual was feeling. Skin conductance is a measure of how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}