Emotion Miner

Emotion Miner

The idea behind Emotion Miner is that you watch videos and note the emotions of the people in the videos.

The videos include lots of comedy, celebrity interviews, talk shows, documentaries and more. Each video is broken into short segments. Underneath the video is a list of emotions, and you simply click on whichever emotions you notice in the clip. Emotion Miner is a project by a company called Neurodata Lab, a scientific research company working in areas such as cognitive science, psychology, linguistics and machine learning. Basically, they are trying to teach computers to recognise human emotions! By getting a team of real people to mark up the emotions in a range of videos, computers will start to learn how we humans look and behave when we feel happy, sad, excited or scared.

The team behind Emotion Miner claim that not only can you get paid to watch videos, you also get the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping to advance neuroscience, while boosting your own emotional intelligence.

How does Emotion Miner work?

Once you’re signed up to Emotion Miner, you have to do a short training. You’ll watch some very short videos and see an explanation of the emotions that the team are looking for.

At first I felt like I didn’t need a training to know when people are happy or sad. However, it was actually very useful.

It helps you understand exactly what the Emotion Miner team are looking for, so that you don’t have any tasks rejected. I learned that we’re looking at body language and facial expressions in addition to actual words.

After you’ve completed four of these short training modules, you can start your first paid task!

You’ll start with a standard task, which consists of 15 videos. You’re encouraged to watch each video all the way through first, so that you have a better understanding. However, you can skip ahead to the emotion annotating bit if you want.

Then you watch each video again, broken down into chunks of a few seconds each. Beneath the video screen, you’ll see a list of emotions. You simply click on whatever emotion you notice in that clip. If you don’t see any of them, there’s an option for that, too.

The first task will be assessed before you can do more work. Don’t just think you can click any random boxes – you’ll be barred from taking part in further tasks.

Emotion Miner pays you for each batch of videos. You can sign up for a Standard Task (15 videos, $5), Extended Task (45 videos, $18) or Jedi Master Task (150 videos, $100).

You have to complete at least one task at each level before taking on the bigger tasks.

Once you’ve reserved a task, you have one or two weeks to complete (depending on the number of videos in the batch). You can log on, complete one or two videos, and save the rest for later. I love how flexible this is! A lot of other work from home opportunities (surveys and website testing, for example) require you to hop on a project as soon as it become available.

Also, there is always loads of work available! You could probably do this all day long if you wanted, although you have to wait a couple of days after your first task while it is approved.

Emotion Miner have a referral program, so you can earn extra money by inviting your friends.

As soon as you’ve earned $6, you can request to cash out to your PayPal account.

Heres the link: Emotionminer.com