Friday, August 12, 2005
Boffins develop phone call boredom spotter - vnunet.com
Hmm, which is it: spot if the other person is bored, or spot if you're a jerk? I'm sure there can be a correlation, but not necessarily. MIT seem to have taken what could be a really useful piece of software (think of assessing someone's irritation to an automated system, or stress levels for calls to emergency services) and have applied it to an entirely trivial domain. They even call it the Jerk-O-Meter...
Hmm, which is it: spot if the other person is bored, or spot if you're a jerk? I'm sure there can be a correlation, but not necessarily. MIT seem to have taken what could be a really useful piece of software (think of assessing someone's irritation to an automated system, or stress levels for calls to emergency services) and have applied it to an entirely trivial domain. They even call it the Jerk-O-Meter...
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