St Andrews University develop iPhone emotion sensor
A phone application which can identify whether a caller is happy, angry, bored or sad has been developed by researchers at St Andrew’s University.
The team have developed ‘EmotionSense,’ a speech recognition and GPS system which, it is said, will transform how psychologists study emotions, moods and social behaviour potentially helping to prevent depression.
The technology was developed in collaboration with Cambridge University and is being refined to be incorporated into standard mobile phones, it works by matching voice patterns to recorded speech samples.
A pilot studies findings proved less than earth shattering, revealing that people were happier at home, sadder at work and more ‘intense’ in the evenings.