NEMO is developing new ways to digitise and transmit emotion online.The team is planning small add-ons for digital interaction platforms that would consider emotions.This way participants in online discussions could see or even experience the emotions of others in a new way that would be equivalent to natural interaction.
The team wants to create an open protocol for emotion transmission for any coder to use for building new empathy-enabling applications.
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