Resumen de Depressed?: Computers know what it's like
SimSensei is a digital avatar that interviews humans to judge their state of mind. Simsensei is one of several new initiatives designed to partially automate one of the medical profession's trickiest tasks: diagnosing depression. SimSensei is more than an astute questioner. Behind the scenes, it uses face recognition technology and depth-sensing cameras built into Microsoft's Kinect to record and interpret the interviewee's body language. The animated psychologist can then respond appropriately. Here, Firth finds out how Stefan Scherer of the University of Southern California and colleagues extracted the right features.
