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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. Advertising by invid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I'm sad will I suddenly see lots of adds for antidepressant?

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    The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
  2. Re:Get out of my personal space Microsoft by digitalchinky · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Whenever I approach society, particularly women, I'm very quickly enlightened about my emotional state : ) I don't think hearing it again from my phone would add any useful data to that stack of baggage. One thing that would be extremely cool would be a sensor for smell, I was born completely without this so I'd love to know if I smell bad, gas is leaking, burning and so on. I never actually even knew smell existed until I was in my teens, it took another year or so after that for me to believe people weren't just faking it.