Affectiva

Affectiva
Company typePrivate
Industrysoftware, artificial intelligence
FoundedMassachusetts, United States (2009 (2009))[1][2]
FoundersRana el Kaliouby, Ph.D.[2][3] (CEO & Co-founder)
Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D.[2][3] (Co-founder)
FateAcquired by SmartEye
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
,
United States[4][5]
Number of locations
Boston, Massachusetts and Cairo, Egypt
ProductsAffectiva Automotive AI,[6] Affectiva Media Analytics[7]
ServicesEmotion AI[8]
Total equity(venture capital) $53 million[9]
Number of employees
100-150[10]
Websiteaffectiva.com

Affectiva is a software development company that created artificial intelligence. In 2021, the company was acquired by SmartEye. The company claimed its AI understood human emotions, cognitive states, activities and the objects people use, by analyzing facial and vocal expressions.[11] The offshoot of MIT Media Lab,[12] Affectiva created a new technological category of Artificial Emotional Intelligence, namely, Emotion AI.[13]

  1. ^ Bosker, Bianca (December 24, 2012). "Affectiva's Emotion Recognition Tech: When Machines Know What You're Feeling". The Huffington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Kerstetter, Jim (February 2, 2013). "Building better Super Bowl ads by watching you watch them". CNET. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Meet Our Team". Affectiva. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  4. ^ "Contact us". Affectiva. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  5. ^ Girard, Kim (January 29, 2013). "Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad". Forbes. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  6. ^ "Automotive AI". Affectiva. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  7. ^ "Media Analytics". Affectiva. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  8. ^ "Emotion AI". Forbes. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  9. ^ Affectiva Raises $26 Million to Fast-Track Human Perception AI in Automotive and Conversational Interfaces BusinessWire, April 11, 2019, Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  10. ^ Company profile, Glassdoor.com, February 13, 2015, Retrieved May 17, 2017
  11. ^ "New Affectiva cloud API helps machines understand emotions in human speech". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  12. ^ Khatchadourian, Raffi. "We Know How You Feel". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  13. ^ Press, Gil. "Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leaders: Rana el Kaliouby, Affectiva". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-11-20.