1. The document discusses thinking creatively and practicing a reading comprehension test about affective computing and recognizing human emotions.
2. The test questions cover topics like what Picard concluded after reading a book, what Affectiva specializes in, and recent work by Picard's group designing health monitoring software.
3. To answer the questions, readers look at details in the passage that relate to underlined words, identify relevant parts, and choose the best answer completing each sentence based on the information given.
1. The document discusses thinking creatively and practicing a reading comprehension test about affective computing and recognizing human emotions.
2. The test questions cover topics like what Picard concluded after reading a book, what Affectiva specializes in, and recent work by Picard's group designing health monitoring software.
3. To answer the questions, readers look at details in the passage that relate to underlined words, identify relevant parts, and choose the best answer completing each sentence based on the information given.
1. The document discusses thinking creatively and practicing a reading comprehension test about affective computing and recognizing human emotions.
2. The test questions cover topics like what Picard concluded after reading a book, what Affectiva specializes in, and recent work by Picard's group designing health monitoring software.
3. To answer the questions, readers look at details in the passage that relate to underlined words, identify relevant parts, and choose the best answer completing each sentence based on the information given.
T"est practice j3cj:"t.trc vtlu. rcatl 4 Follow the same steps as in Exercise 3 and complete the test task. 1 Read the title and sub-title of the reading passage, What does'affective' mean? Questions 6-10 Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D. hołl l:łłlr[:trus el iele as 6 What conclusion did Picard reach after reading 2a Look at the underlined words in question 1 of a book? the test task below. In the first paragraph of the A The writer of the book had been mistaken. reading passage, identify the parts which relate B Emotion and intelligence are two separate to the underlined words. ConCePtS, b Read the parts you identified carefully. What was C Human cognitive abilities could never be the writer watching? matched by computers. D Computers should be programmed to c Look at options A-H in the test task below and recognise emotion, choose the best ending. 7 Picard and her colleagues at Affectlva discovered that i'; lll1 1l,;li:ł.irltl A fluctuations in heart rate are Iinked to a 3 Follow the same steps as in Exercise 2 and variety of emotions. complete the test task. B it is possible to match emotions to physica| SymptomS. Questions 1-5 C the physical signs of emotron are the same Complete eąch sentence with the correct ending, A-H, for all individuals. below. D facial expressions are the most reliable Write the correct letter, A-H. indicator of emotion, 8 What do we learn about Affectiva in the passage? 1 The writer's own face was mon jtored as he A ltwas established by el Kaliouby. looked at B It is currently short of funding. 2 The |ab where Rana el Kaliouby worked has C lt conducts research into health problems. designed things like D lt specialises in the physical signals of emotion, 3 The attempt to create machines which can 9 The Affdex database has shown that recognise feelings is called A women and men in the UK smile equally often 4 lnternational experts from various academic B age is not a s|8nificant factor rn smillng fields are trying to identify C people who smile often are happier than 5 ln the ]990s, Picard was working on ways to those who don't. expand D American women smi|e more often than French women. A affective computing. B the food he was about to eat. ]0 Most recently, Picard's group have been designing software C computers' powers of recognition. D a short video A for sale to private companies, B for use in industrial computers. E emotional intelligence, F an innovative motorvehicle, c to allow an individual's health to be monitored, D to suggest the best response to a medical G an academic journal emergenCy. H physical expressions of emotion in people.