Science Resources

Crowdsourcing Facial Responses to Online Videos
The ability to collect biometric emotional data, such as facial expres...
Method For Biosensor Usage With Pressure Compensation – Patent US 8,396,530 B1
Overview Wearable devices allow their users to communicate, track step...
Measuring Emotions Through A Mobile Device Across Borders, Ages, Genders And More
Well before Affectiva had an on-device mobile SDK for smartphones, Aff...
Smile or Smirk? Automatic Detection of Spontaneous Asymmetric Smiles to Understand Viewer Experience
Many expressions that are detected by automated facial expression reco...
Sporadic Collection of Mobile Affect Data – Patent US 9,204,836 B2
Overview How a viewer reacts in a particular interaction can be determ...
Why, When and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements?
The product of a collaboration with Thales S. Teixeira of the Harvard...
Do Emotions in Advertising Drive Sales?
Presented at ESOMAR Congress in 2013, “Do Emotions in Advertisin...
Facial Action Unit Detection Using Active Learning and an Efficient Non-linear Kernel Approximation
Affectiva’s technology makes use of machine learning, an area of res...
Does Facial Coding Generalize Across Cultures? A Spotlight on Asia
This paper recounts the journey that Millward Brown and Affectiva unde...
Biosensor Module With Leadless Contacts – Patent US 8,774,893 B2
Overview Sensors are used to measure a range of biological activity of...