Communications of the ACM
Can Your Phone Double p as Your Life-Coach?
The Android Remote Sensing (AIRS) app can provide an informed account of a person's day.
Credit: University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge researchers have developed the Android Remote Sensing app (AIRS), which gathers environmental data such as location, weather, and noise levels and combines it with information on the user's social events and communication spikes to provide an overview of the user's day. The automatic recording is combined with the ability to add emotional data by updating the user's mood through a series of emoticons with text annotations. "By steering people to become self-aware of stress and activity management, systems such as AIRS may be able to help people before they develop health problems in later life, when costly treatments are required with limited success," says Cambridge's Dirk Trossen.
AIRS also provides essential data for the desktop-based MyRoR platform for lifestyle management, part of the wider PAL project, which is studying personal and social communication services for health and lifestyle monitoring. "The platform gives people the opportunity to step outside their lives and analyze in-depth contextual data from their day to day existence — an important chance for serious reflection on aspects of daily life that are impacting perhaps without even realizing," Trossen says.
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