Affectiva Sensor Wristband Measures Emotional Stress

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Intellectual & Developmental Disability Services On November 4, 2010, Affectiva launched its Q Sensor, a wireless biosensor that unobtrusively measures changes in the wearer’s skin conductance, motion, and temperature that accompany rising levels of emotional distress. Affectiva, founded in 2009 to develop technologies to help people on the autism spectrum, created the device to measure emotion objectively. The Q Sensor, priced at $2,000 per unit, comes with downloadable software to facilitate analysis of data collected by the device. Discounts are available for autism-related non-profit organizations. Although the initial version of the . . .