Microsoft in bid to match ads to moods

Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 14/06/2012 15:13

Feeling overweight and unhappy? Microsoft may soon be targeting you with weight-loss ads based on your emotions after filing a patent application in the US.

Microsoft would use its Kinect Xbox controller, which includes a camera and voice recognition, to register a person's mood based on behaviour or even facial expressions, to gather information.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/microsoft-in-bid-to-match-ads-to-moods/story-e6frgakx-1226394842291

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