Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 28, 2013 @02:54AM 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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Get out of my personal space Microsoft by Piata · 2013-06-28 03:01 · 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.