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Technology Could Enable Computers To "Read The Minds" Of Users
New techniques under development could allow computers to respond to users' thoughts of frustration or boredom (too much or too little work) by applying functional near-infrared spectroscopy technology, which uses light to monitor brain blood flow as a proxy for user workload stress. Applying this noninvasive, portable imaging technology in new ways, the researchers hope to gain real-time insight into the brain's emotional cues.
Well, the computer already knows what I'm going to write, so why bother?
No joke... if my computer scanned my brain and posted random LOLCats when I got sad or bored, my life would be legitimately better.
Bury me in mashed potatoes.
... the tinfoil hat will become useful.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
I'm glad they are restricting the sensors to monitor brain blood flow while I'm at the computer. When my employeer starts automatically monitoring blood flow below my waist when I'm surfing online, that's when I'll start to get a bit worried. :)
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My windows machine computer already does this. It uses an incredibly precise mind reading method to determine the absolute worst moment to shut down/blue up, or provide me with a handy dialog box explaining that the current app doesn't want to play any more and has taken my data home with it.
Using my mind reading technology I can tell that you are under extremely high level of stress. Would you like to:
a) Take a nap
b) Have a healthy snack
c) Continue working
AAAAARGH *fist crashes through the monitor*
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
"While wearing the fNIRS device, test subjects viewed a multicolored cube consisting of eight smaller cubes with two, three or four different colors. As the cube rotated onscreen, subjects counted the number of colored squares in a series of 30 tasks."
It seems you want to strangle me. Would you like some assistance?
Boss: Look, we got a report from our monitors that you were... um... sexually excited, two days ago around 3pm. Just about the time we heard reports of grunting sounds from your cube. ...
Employee: uhhhhhhhhhh
Boss: This prompted us to install a logger on your machine. We were able to get your VPN password you were using to connect to your home, and noticed you have a thing for zombie midget porn.
Employee: errr
Boss: We were also able to detect that your... libido... rise when the one-legged secretary delivers your mail to your cube. Employee:
Boss: Wait till you see my wife's mother. She is coming in here with my wife in about fifteen minutes. You'll like her. She was in a car wreck a year or so ago and had a skin graft on 80% of her body!
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Personally comma I don't trust this thing period I mean really comma if the voice-recognition program can get it straight comma what makes me thing this thingamadongle on top of my head is going to get my thought pattern down correctly question mark question mark question mark It's just silly period
Yes comma I did train the word thingamadongle period
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X's and O's for all my foes.
Sony and Microsoft are developing competing formats for reading your mind.
I don't know why, ma'am.
Seriously. I think if could peer into the "mind" of my users, I'd just see a saw going back and forth through a log, or one of those cymbal-clapping wind-up monkey toys. I can't imagine there's much else going on up there.
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Hey, when you get pictures of guys with their hoohoos up other guys wahhahs, instead of girls hoohahs, we'll know it wasn't an accident, that you were actually thinking about it.