Reading mind from body

Recent studies in cognitive science have repeatedly shown that human behavior, decision making, and emotions depend heavily on the “implicit mind”, that is, automatic, involuntary mental processes even the person herself/himself is not aware of. We have started to develop diverse methods to decode the implicit mind from involuntary body movements and physiological responses, including pupil dilation, eye movements, heart rate variability, and hormone secretion. Here, we introduce some examples of our mind-reading technology. If the technology can be made viable with cameras and wearable sensors, it would offer a wide range of usage possibilities in ICT, such as smartphones that can understand the user’s implicit intention, quantitative evaluation of user experience in a multimedia environment, and a sports-training system that takes account into the trainee’s mental state.

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