Sociometrics: When Computers Read Between The Lines
People communicate with words but also tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language — subtle layers have been mostly opaque to computers. New technologies are overcoming this barrier to improve productivity, service, and healthcare.
Interviewees from the MIT Human Dynamics Laboratory: Sandy Pentland, Director, and Anmol Madan, researcher
2004
About These Documentaries
Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.
For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.
Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.
A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.