Principal Investigator Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Project Website http://groupmedia.media.mit.edu/in.php
Today's mobile phones are essentially off-the-shelf, mass-market wearable computers. In this project, we are working on mobile social software that uses location, proximity and tone of voice to create a sophisticated understanding of people's social lives, by mining their face-to-face and phone interactions. We have prototyped several applications of our system – automatic characterization of social and workplace interactions, a courtesy reminder for phone conversations, and a personal trainer for dating encounters.
The MoodTrainer application has been used to mine day-today social interactions (friends, peers), interactions at the workplace and tourist experiences in the Scottish Highlands.