Teaching Cell Phones To Be More Polite
August, 13th - 4:34 pm ET | posted by in Wireless Innovation
Researchers at Intel are working on teaching cell phones to be more polite and not interrupt important conversations. By analyzing speech patterns, tone, volume, etc., scientists are able to learn much about conversations – even without hearing the actual words.
For example, if one person is dominating the conversation, it is likely a more formal interaction – a boss and employee or teacher and student. But if the exchanges are more even and overlapping, it’s likely a casual or social conversation that may be more open to being interrupted by a cell phone call.
It would be nice if they could combine this with the GPS capabilities now available in many cell phones to teach phones when it’s not appropriate to put through calls as well (such as churches, movie theatres, etc.).
Now if we could only teach the kids when it’s appropriate to interrupt, we’d be set.
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quite interesting… wouldnt that be borderline Privacy and security infringement…
{I’m saying it with a commanding tone}
Well, they aren’t capturing the words – just the tone specifically to protect privacy. That’s really what the research is about – how much can you learn about the dynamics of conversation without studying the content of the conversation.
Still… seems kinda Orwellian to me, no?