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Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones

Posted by Soulskill on from the used-it-to-detect-that-users-are-upset-about-mood-detection dept.

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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  1. Get out of my personal space Microsoft by Piata · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dear Microsoft, I don't want my phone to know what I eat for breakfast, how I'm feeling or how I choose to spend my time. I just need it to make phone calls and check my email. That's it. That's all.

    Can you please stop being such a creepy digital stalker? It's gone well past disturbing at this point.

  2. Hmmm by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The researchers created a low-power background service for iPhones and Android handsets

    I currently own both an iPad and and Nexus tablet ... and if Microsoft thinks I'd be willing to install any of their shit on them, they're sadly mistaken.

    WTF would I want my phone to know anything about my mood for? And why should I trust Microsoft with the data? They'll just roll over and hand it to the NSA anyway.

    Microsoft Research has specialized in making shit nobody has wanted for years. Pity they couldn't focus on making products people actually want.

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