双语趣听精彩世界 第72期:能读出人心情的应用

 　　英国广播公司:戴尔公司的研发部门称,该公司或将在2017年推出新的应用来"读心情".

　　能读出人心情的应用

　　BBC News: The head of Dell's new research and development division has said the company could release a mood-reading application as soon as 2017.

　　Jai Menon told the BBC that Dell Research was working on software for existing brain activity headsets that would accurately¹ identify a wearer's emotional states.

　　He added that he believed such tech had uses in both the office and home. But some experts are sceptical about the project.

　　Dell is not the only major tech company to investigate the idea.

　　Microsoft has announced a series of mood-reading research projects, including Moodscope - software to infer a user's mental state from their smartphone use - and a "smart bra" that monitors heart and skin activity to detect stress and emotions.

　　IBM has tested uses for brain-monitoring gear at its research base in Hursley, England. And the video games company Valve also experimented with building sensors² into a controller that would adapt gameplay to the player's body state, but later abandoned the idea.

　　Mr Menon said the current version of the software being tested was only able to correctly identify a headset wearer's mood about half of the time, but added he expected the figure would improve.

1 accurately   

adv.准确地，精确地

参考例句：

• It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
• Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。

2 sensors   

n.传感器，灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时，有很大变化。 来自辞典例句