Shrug-detection

Newly developed technology allows a computer with camera to read a person's body language, within some limits.

The detector tracks the movement of a person's face and shoulders and tries to spot "relative fast movement of the shoulder toward the face". That's a shrug to you and me.

Other work on motion tracking has provided new ways to play games and even methods to detect boredom.

No word yet programming the computer to feel guilty for being so boring.

[via engadget]