| Jocelyn Scheirer | |
| Birth Date: | 6 December 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Field: | Affective Computing Wearables |
| Work Institutions: | MIT Media Lab, Ronin Institute |
| Alma Mater: | Tufts University (B.A. Brandeis University (M.A.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D Candidate) MIT Media Lab |
Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who works in wearable technology and affective computing.
Scheirer graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1985. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English Literature from Tufts University in 1989. She then received a master's degree from Brandeis University, focusing on Developmental and Social Psychology, graduating in 1996. Scheirer was a PhD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (all but dissertation) from 1996 to 2001.
Scheirer worked as a research technician under Arthur S. Tischler in the endocrine pathology lab at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1991 to 1994.[1]
She worked as a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group. She worked on affective objects, or physical objects that can record emotional data from a given subject and relay that information to that subject or to observers in a given environment.[2] [3] She published several studies on the topic with Rosalind Picard, the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group.[4]
Scheirer briefly worked as a consultant for Sherry Turkle in the Science, technology, and society department at MIT. conducting ethnographic research for Turkle's book Alone Together from 2000 to 2001.[5]
In 2006, Scheirer founded her first MIT Media Lab spinout Empathyx, Inc. where she attempted to commercialize the Galvactivator.[6]
Scheirer co-founded the emotional analytics company Affectiva in 2009, and was their director of operations until 2010.[7]
In 2009, Affectiva licensed the Galvactivator from MIT. Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard would continue to utilize the patent over the next 3 years, developing their own skin conductance sensor called the Q Sensor which also used some of the technology from the MIT Media Lab's iCalm, another wearable physiological monitoring device.[8] [9] [10] Affectiva used the Q Sensor in addition to their facial recognition software to measure physiological stress and excitement in focus groups. Affectiva discontinued their use of the "Q Sensor" in 2013 to focus their attention exclusively on their patented Affdex facial recognition software.[11]
She was elected to sit on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City in September 2015.[12] She is also a research scholar at the Ronin Institute.[13]
Scheirer has also created several visual and performance art pieces that have been featured in several galleries in Massachusetts.[14] [15] [16]
"Sensing and Display of Skin Conductivity.” U.S. Patent 6415176. Issued July 2, 2002. (Jocelyn Scheirer, Rosalind Picard, Nancy Tilbury, and Jonathan Farringdon)[17]
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. SYS-CON Media Inc. . Internet of Things Expo 2015 . April 11, 2015.. Sherry Turkle . 2011 . Alone Together . . 1st . 10 . April 14, 2015.