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Smile Scan

FTV 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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Joe

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

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

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

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

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

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

The chesire cat will surely score 200 or more!

http://witzl.blogspot.com/ Mary Witzl

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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