Affectiva

Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is the pioneer in emotion recognition technology, the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Affectiva brings emotional intelligence to the digital world by measuring and analyzing facial expressions of emotion. Our patented software is built on an emotion AI science platform that uses deep learning and the world’s largest emotion data repository of more than 4 million faces analyzed from 75 countries, amounting to more than 50 billion emotion data points.

Affectiva is used by more than 1,400 brands to gather insight and analytics in consumer emotional engagement. The company also provides SDKs and APIs so developers can add emotion-sensing and analytics to their own mobile apps, games, devices, applications and digital experiences. Affectiva’s emotion recognition technology is used in many different industries including online education, healthcare, gaming, robotics, media and advertising, market research, automotive retail, human resources, training and coaching, video communication, experiential design, and in wearables and devices.