Smile Scan

Fuji TV news takes a look at Omron’s Smile Scan system:

The system, which scans human faces and calculates smile percentages, is being used for “smile training” in certain service industries.

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7 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - January 29, 2009 at 6:36 am

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Comment by Joe

2009-01-29 08:02:16

Scary…am I the only one who doesn’t enjoy fake plastic smiles?

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Comment by helical

2009-01-29 08:04:12

Ah, I see the human workers are fighting back against robots taking over the workplace by becoming uniform robotic laborers themselves. Brilliant!

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Comment by Grinz

2009-01-29 08:44:03

they might as well start giving employees Glasgow smiles while they’re at it.

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Comment by anon

2009-01-29 14:41:14

I don’t like the smile that shows teeth, always horrified when some americans do it.

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Comment by Haf

2009-01-29 15:27:19

I wonder if people can get smile percentage scores over 100.

The chesire cat will surely score 200 or more!

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Comment by Mary Witzl

2009-01-29 16:47:04

I’m heartened to find that others find this as appalling as I do. How can you calculate the warmth in a smile? The sincerity? How can a machine tell you a smile isn’t sarcastic or plastic? Booey to this.

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