I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, aren't I?
(Oh, and Callista: I'm not focusing on you personally, just need to use an example.)
Callista wrote:
How many times do I have to say this? There is no cure, there will never be a cure, and when you talk about one, you're talking about a thought experiment, not a real thing.
Oh REALLY?Seriously, take a look at the book.
It's awesome!(ISBN-13: 978-3642147142 for anyone who can't view the Amazon preview.)
From the abstract:
Quote:
The target topics of the Human Behavior Understanding (HBU) Workshop reflect some of the old and new questions in this domain:
- Social behavior analysis & modeling, multimodal behavior patterns
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- Facial, gestural and voice-based affect recognition
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- Pattern discovery in personal sensor networks, reality mining
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Research focuses now on more natural settings with uncontrolled conditions, real-time operation requirements and interaction dynamics. Furthermore, domain-specific semantic information is drawn into the picture as we move from generic techniques to specific applications.
In other words, the elimination of defining diagnostic criteria via neuroprosthetics, a.k.a.
"the cure", is already under development.
I'm going to be working with this project for the next year (or two, or three...) until we have a functional application for social cognition assistance. I'm so giddy... my dream of working on the cure is actually happening
right now.
And to anybody who's against this: once I have a working model in hand, let's restart this discussion.
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