Intel's Context-Aware Computing Will Let Your Smartphone Sense Your Mood

my thoughts exactly..will my phone start telling me not to go places cause I always get in trouble there? lol or will it just remind me to carry a weapon when I might be entering a dangerous area

This sucks...what happens when my boss calls me and my phone tells him that Im annoyed with him. Damn...what if your phone tells you're wife what you're feeling if she calls you while you're at a strip club?

nooooo thank you.

phone: dave you sound sad what would make you happy

dave:can you open my car door

phone:im sorry dave im afarid i cant do that

Sounds kool. idk if id want one but id be reeeeeeel interested. but hilfest has a point. what if some bitch that i fake friends with cuz i have to calls me? haha. that would not be fun. especially if my fone called her a bitch. yah how would u like to write the headline on that one? high skool drama comes home? yah. not for me.

So, Facebook's "Suggestions" feature, but for the real world?

I don't really like the concept, but it's entirely a matter of implementation and personal taste whether or not it would actually be an extra battery-draining bit of code that never does anything, a spam-generating annoyance, or actually useful in some cases for finding things you wouldn't have otherwise.

MuNcHiEs1122 As impractical as it is you can't deny how could awesome this would be. I wouldn't live off the phone and it's suggestions, but this is still rad. I would love to have a phone like this on the side

Oh great, now my phone can anticipate when I'm going to throw it...

I don't know if this is really worth the effort. At least not with the list of features mentioned above.

However, here's a better idea: find a way to combine Emotiv tech (which senses how much you're paying attention) with a phone. Then, every time you're on a call to Person X (with your phone up to your head, perfect for Emotiv), detect your concentration. If you never seem to pay attention to Person X anyway, then when you hang up, the phone could give you some intuitive options: "Ignore Contact, Quiet Contact, or Deprioritize Contact Voicemail" for example ("Quiet Contact" would lower the volume of the ring for that person, and "Deprioritize Contact Voicemail" will put this user's voicemail at the end of the list at all times, so you hear other voicemails first).

By contrast, if you're usually hyper-attentive to Person Y, it could suggest "Amplify Contact or Prioritize Contact Voicemail" ("Amplify" makes this contact's ringtone a bit louder than others, and "Prioritize" puts this contact's voicemails at the beginning of the list so you hear them first).

Of course, the whole priority voicemail thing can be manually changed to sort voicemails by contact (higher numbers first, lower numbers last, unset contacts' voicemails in the middle sorted by date). But the auto-set would constantly adapt to prioritize contacts based on the amount of concentration you have during calls with each one. Of course, to avoid random one-off events (i.e. you're talking to your boss, but you're distracted by your dog peeing on your leg), it would only adjust after three or four calls with them, and use the average concentration.

-IMP ;) :)

What a load of cr*p! Just what I want, my phone bugging me about stuff. (Did I say that I wanted a latte?)

And ( just POSSIBLY) telling my carrier so that they can do MORE data mining.

This better be optional.