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Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones
angry tapir writes "Researchers at Microsoft Research have produced a prototype software system that can be used on smartphones to infer a user's mood. The 'MoodScope' system produced by researchers uses smartphone usage patterns to determine whether someone is happy, calm, excited, bored or stressed and could potentially add a new dimension to to mobile apps (as well as, as the researchers note, open up a Pandora's Box of privacy issues). The researchers created a low-power background service for iPhones and Android handsets that (with training) can offer reasonable detection of mood and offers and API that app developers could hook into."
I can detect the mood without even having to write software: If you are using a microsoft product, you are feeling like you've given in an just decided to use what works as the least common denominator instead of something that works in the way you need it to.
Endless loop.
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welcome to slashdot, where you basic contentless anti-ms rant gets modded as "insightful." here we have a guy with an ipad - as closed a system as there ever was by a company which puts ms's sins to shame by any objective stanandard, but his blind anti-ms zealotry still peeks through and gets upvotes.
/ no, i do not work or have anything to do with MS. MS research opened a shiny new building not far from me though, though this affects my life only in that I had to sit through traffic more during the construction.
The researchers created a low-power background service for iPhones and Android handsets
I guess they had to drop the Windows phone variant, as the moods only varied between 'disappointed' and 'highly annoyed'.