Software agents facilitating affective computing applications

A method for operating a software agent to assess and disclose crowd-based scores, comprising:

• receiving measurements of affective response of users;
• calculating scores for experiences based on the measurements;
• wherein each score for an experience is calculated based on a subset of the measurements comprising measurements of at least five of the users who had the experience;
• calculating a risk to privacy of a certain user due to a disclosure of one or more of the scores;
• wherein the certain user contributed a measurement of affective response to the calculation of each of the one or more of the scores;
• wherein the risk is indicative of an extent of an improvement to an adversary bias model, which comprises a model of an Emotional Response Predictor (ERP), due to an update of the adversary bias model based on values of the one or more of the scores;
• and
• disclosing the one or more of the scores in a manner that is based on the risk;
• wherein responsive to the risk not reaching a threshold, the one or more of the scores are disclosed in a first manner, and responsive to the risk reaching the threshold, the one or more of the scores are disclosed in a second manner, which is less descriptive than the first manner.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a system including a processor and memory, causes the system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving measurements of affective response of users;
• calculating scores for experiences based on the measurements;
• wherein each score for an experience is calculated based on a subset of the measurements comprising measurements of at least five of the users who had the experience;
• calculating a risk to privacy of a certain user due to a disclosure of one or more of the scores;
• wherein the certain user contributed a measurement of affective response to the calculation of each of the one or more of the scores;
• wherein the risk is indicative of an extent of an improvement to an adversary bias model, which comprises a model of an Emotional Response Predictor (ERP), due to an update of the adversary bias model based on values of the one or more of the scores;
• and
• disclosing the one or more of the scores in a manner that is based on the risk;
• wherein responsive to the risk not reaching a threshold, the one or more of the scores are disclosed in a first manner, and responsive to the risk reaching the threshold, the one or more of the scores are disclosed in a second manner, which is less descriptive than the first manner.