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I've got you under my skin: Huawei to cover Android in new Emotion UI May 28th 2012, 16:02 In the animal kingdom, reptiles shed their skins. In the mobile marketplace, Android smartphones do just the opposite. So, in keeping with the natural order, Huawei's preparing a June coming out party for a UX of its very own, dubbed Emotion UI. The Chinese manufacturer's no stranger to custom interfaces, as we saw at CES 2012 with the optional 3D launcher it employed on the Ascend P line. But as the company continues its trek towards major mobile player status, certain stock perks were sure to fall by the wayside. It's a bid for differentiation that should arguably "enhance" the user experience, but if forums and comment sections are to be believed, this great leap forward is actually a devolution of the worst kind. Hit up the source below to gander at the garbled word constructions of good 'ol Google translate. I've got you under my skin: Huawei to cover Android in new Emotion UI originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 May 2012 12:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink UnwiredView  |  mobile.163.com  | Email this | Comments MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration May 28th 2012, 15:06 Wipe that insincere, two-faced grin off your face -- your computer knows you're full of it. Or at least it will once it gets a load of MIT's research on classifying frustration, delight and facial expressions. By teaching a computer how to differentiate between involuntary smiles of frustration and genuine grins of joy, researchers hope to be able to deconstruct the expression into low-level features. What's the use of a disassembled smile? In addition to helping computers suss out your mood, the team hopes the data can be used to help people with autism learn to more accurately decipher expressions. Find out how MIT is making your computer a better people person than you after the break. [Thanks, Kaustubh] Continue reading MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 May 2012 11:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Crazy Engineers  |  MIT News  | Email this | Comments

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