Microsoft Designers explore the meaning of ‘emotional intelligence’

When Kat Holmes and a few other designers at Microsoft saw Spike Jonze’s slightly futuristic, boy-meets-artificial intelligence love story last year, they left the theater inspired and obsessed with the question: How can human emotions inspire new interactions with technology and each other?

That was the start of a design experiment between Motherboard, Warner Brothers Studio and design students in L.A. and NYC. Their mission was to explore the impact of emotion on human machine interaction.

The video above is the first of two short documentaries that just posted on Motherboard, giving you a glimpse of what they learned.