Novel idea. It may not be too useful in hostile take over situations or at a poker game, but perhaps as a device for marriage counsellors or psychologists. It may even have a powerful use by designers as an ethnographic research device for focus groups or surveys... I could use something like this on occasion to clarify the true feelings of focus groups while testing design. If you took the concept of some form of sensor the monitored stress levels, or basic emotions, and used that in places such as military training, or other areas where non-obstructive testing would be beneficial to the user and the commander or foreman, having a simple colour based chart by which to tell who is performing at optimum emotional levels, would be a great help. it could be used in factories at repetitive stations to work out when someone needs a break so they are not just taking breaks when the clock tells them too and working through emotional downs where production and concentration are both bad of the company and the worker. The workers day could be tailored each and every day, and hour to the emotional state of the worker for maximum productivity and happiness. howman

its like a new lie detector test haha Classic

Very good idea. I saw an interview on TV this morning where a translator was needed as the interviewee did not speak the same language than the interviewer. If you had such a thing, the audience could get a better understanding of what the interviewee says since the spoken word by the translator does not provide the full spectrum of communication the interviewee actually provides. (What a sentence...) diplomod

nice idea! it might be better however, to associate the emotion with different colors, not patterns. people are more in tune with colors showing feelings. patterns would have to be learned by the user. Jehan