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As communication becomes more digital, robots could translate emotions for us
As communication becomes more digital, robots could translate emotions for us,How often have you received a text or email and completely misunderstood the intent? Probably more often than you’d like. So much of human communication is based on body language, tone, and inflection, all things that text-based communication doesn’t readily allow for. Use of emojis and shorthand has done something to close that gap, but we still often misunderstand one another, sometimes to disastrous ends.

As communication becomes more digital, robots could translate emotions for us

How often have you received a text or email and completely misunderstood the intent? Probably more often than you’d like. So much of human communication is based on body language, tone, and inflection, all things that text-based communication doesn’t readily allow for. Use of emojis and shorthand has done something to close that gap, but we still often misunderstand one another, sometimes to disastrous ends.