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Cultural Differences in Reading Faces

Roger Dooley 7
The hottest new thing in neuromarketing is facial coding - the reading of fleeting facial expressions to determine true emotional reaction. Although the concept isn't new - it dates to Paul Ekman's groundbreaking research in the 1950s to…

Get Your Face Read!

Roger Dooley 15
Back in November, I mentioned that Affectiva, a firm in our neuromarketing companies list, was working on doing facial expression analysis using the webcams connected to most computers. Now, if you want to see how this works, you can…

When Your Computer Watches Back

Roger Dooley 12
I frequently joke about journalists who use the term "Orwellian" to describe neuromarketing, but Orwell's novel 1984 did foresee one technology that may become a reality: a television (or at least a monitor) that watches you back. The…