ALTER EGO
Self-recognition of your own future potential
Looking beyond AI recognition and taking a fresh look at yourself in the context of
others
AI algorithms and recommendations that have become commonplace on news and commerce sites have
made
our lives convenient and have become so ubiquitous that a time will come when we may start
seeing
ourselves as an AI recommends.
Extreme reliance on AI has the risk of limiting one's possibilities.
Through an open but designed conversation with another person, you may find something unexpected
about yourself.
We are proposing a means to discover new self-potential through communicating with others, not
just an AI,
and to self-update daily and encounter a new possibility of oneself.
What is ALTER EGO?
ALTER EGO is a tool that allows you to encounter a new you using digital communication. This tool uses sensing technology to detect each other's emotions during a conversation, and generates a self in the mind of the other person. By looking back at that self, you can learn about a new aspect of yourself and continue to expand yourself.
Emotion Sensing Technology Detects the Movement of the Mind
What made ALTER EGO possible is the "emotion sensing technology" developed by Panasonic's Product Analysis Center, which captures the movement of human emotions. Since this project is an experimental effort to improve the emotion sensing technology, we adopted facial expressions (how much a person smiles) and movements (nodding and shaking one's head) as hypothesized indicators to measure "emotional movement," and conducted sensing.
Visual and Sensory Expression of Other People's Emotions
The colorful "haze" that surrounds you represents the facial expressions and movements of the person you are talking to. Each color has a different meaning. Blue means "a sideways swing of the face = elation," red means "a smile = joy," and yellow means "a nod = empathy."
