This article talks about things like signalling glasses for people with Asperger’s syndrome, and computers which can register "affect" in human facial expressions. (But could the computer ever feel compassion in the face [no pun intended] of human sadness or misery?)
There's no way a computer can ever be programmed to genuinely have feelings. They can't even properly translate texts from one language to another (even something as non-emotional or metaphorical as craft instructions!).
I love computers, but I don't view them as potential miracle workers.
