Rana El Kaliouby of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along with MIT colleagues Rosalind Picard and Alea Teeters are developing a device that can pick up on a person’s emotions and alert its user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.

It is being developed for use with people with autism because they lack the ability to pick up on these type of cues.  The device is being presented this coming week at the Body Sensor Network conference at MIT.

I think this is great for autistic people but the rest of us would benifit as well.