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."

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[ArcadeMan]

When I'm sad...

...Clippy will pop up...

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[MiniMike]

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'.