3. Rana El Kaliouby - Quotes

“My goal? (1) empower people to capture, learn from and share their social, affective and memorable experiences and ulimately connect in a fundamentally better way; (2) address open research questions regarding how our people sensing abilities shape our behaviour, memories and connections with others.” Rana El Kaliouby on her MIT website

“Emotions cut across every aspect of human experience – emotions affect how we interact and communicate with others, how we make decisions, what we eat and buy, how we learn, it affects our memories, our general health, our sleep .. everything really. So emotion-sensing devices really have the opportunity to help people better understand how their emotions affect their lives, and can help improve lives.” Rana El Kaliouby in a personal interview

“Theory of mind” or mind-reading [1]—the ability to attribute mental states to others by observing their behaviour—is a key component of socio-emotional intelligence in humans…” – Rana El Kaliouby and Peter Robinson in Generalization of a Vision-Based Computational Model of Mind-Reading