{"683353":{"#nid":"683353","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Aim to Increase Awareness of Emotion AI \u2014 By Letting People Try It","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECan you tell what someone is feeling based on their facial expression?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProponents of emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions, text, voice, and other cues to infer emotions \u2014 say it can do just that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researcher Noura Howell, who received an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2024\/06\/howell-nsf-career-grant-emotion-ai\u0022\u003ENSF CAREER award\u003C\/a\u003E to study emotion AI in 2024, said the technology has a number of shortfalls that can lead to inaccurate results. Like generative AI, emotion AI is also subject to bias, and its use raises ethical and privacy concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite these shortcomings, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/noura-howell\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EHowell\u003C\/a\u003E said emotion AI has quietly shaped decisions in areas like hiring, education, mental health, and public safety in recent years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet most people don\u2019t know it exists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowell and Digital Media Ph.D. students Xingyu Li and Alexandra \u201cAllie\u201d Teixeira Riggs in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication are working to change that. They held workshops across Atlanta over the last two months, giving participants a rare opportunity to try emotion AI for themselves \u2014 and then share their impressions, ideas, and concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/07\/researchers-increase-awareness-emotion-ai\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researcher Noura Howell and her team held community workshops in July to raise awareness about emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions and other data to infer emotions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researcher Noura Howell and her team held community workshops in July to raise awareness about emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions and other data to infer emotions."}],"uid":"35777","created_gmt":"2025-07-29 14:43:09","changed_gmt":"2025-07-29 14:51:43","author":"Stephanie Kadel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677521":{"id":"677521","type":"image","title":"0L2A0123.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EXingyu Li (left) demonstrates the emotion AI system created for the team\u0027s workshops. The system has captured and analyzed her facial expression on the screen.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1753800203","gmt_created":"2025-07-29 14:43:23","changed":"1753800203","gmt_changed":"2025-07-29 14:43:23","alt":"Xingyu Li and Alexandra Teixeira Riggs stand in front of a screen showing an emotion AI analysis of Li\u0027s facial expression.","file":{"fid":"261428","name":"0L2A0123.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/29\/0L2A0123.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/29\/0L2A0123.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1697549,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/29\/0L2A0123.jpg?itok=fvfL_-CV"}}},"media_ids":["677521"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/07\/researchers-increase-awareness-emotion-ai","title":"Full Story: Georgia Tech Researchers Aim to Increase Awareness of Emotion AI"},{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2024\/06\/howell-nsf-career-grant-emotion-ai","title":"Noura Howell Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Emotion AI"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stephanie.kadel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStephanie N. Kadel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stephanie.kadel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}