Machines that prevent terrorism by reading emotions
It sounds crazy, but it was making a big splash in the papers not long ago. Analysis of facial expressions could soon be used to detect whether somebody is about to commit a terrorist atrocity.
Students working on the system primarily plan to use it for human-machine interactions, by which robots would be able to detect and process human emotion.
With regards to the crime prevention aspect, graduate Abu Sayheed Sohail said “it could be used to identify suspicious movements, to draw a security agent’s attention and alert him or her to maybe take a more careful look at five or six of the people.”