http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/10/26/can-computers-help-humans-communicate/ Mon, 21 May 2012 05:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/10/26/can-computers-help-humans-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Dan Voell Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:54:54 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=686#comment-626 I am assuming it isn't much more mechanical then active listening. Whether it is revolutionary or not I am really excited to see commercialization. I have heard of several companies performing lie detector tests. It is nice to see someone using this power to help people. Receiving objective feedback on communication skills could be invaluable to a variety of job (and life) roles. So many jobs rely on communication skills and aside from our obvious communication misgivings we rarely receive objective feedback on subtleties that we aren't aware of. I am assuming it isn’t much more mechanical then active listening. Whether it is revolutionary or not I am really excited to see commercialization. I have heard of several companies performing lie detector tests. It is nice to see someone using this power to help people. Receiving objective feedback on communication skills could be invaluable to a variety of job (and life) roles. So many jobs rely on communication skills and aside from our obvious communication misgivings we rarely receive objective feedback on subtleties that we aren’t aware of.

]]> http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/10/26/can-computers-help-humans-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-625 Can Computers Help Humans Communicate? Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:35:15 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=686#comment-625 [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe inventor of this technology is Alex Pentland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has developed cellphone-like gadgets to listen to people as they chat, and computer programs that sift through these conversational … [...] [...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe inventor of this technology is Alex Pentland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has developed cellphone-like gadgets to listen to people as they chat, and computer programs that sift through these conversational … [...]

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