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I once tried building a Macbook app which lowers my music volume when I'm not smiling, to try to stimulate more happy emotions (forcing yourself to smile induce
by jorisboris 2y ago
I once tried building a Macbook app which lowers my music volume when I'm not smiling, to try to stimulate more happy emotions (forcing yourself to smile induces happy feelings)
Then I started thinking how this could be used in restaurants to see if waiters smile to the people they are serving
Or in customer service (you can actually hear it when people smile on the phone)
Then I realised that this kind of tech would definitely lead to abuse
(btw that's not the reason I didn't build it, it was just not that easy to build)
- zelphirkalt 2y agoWe cannot extend your work contract, based on your performance the last week. You definitely did not smile enough. Our systems indicate, that you were also not happy enough a sufficient portion of the time you worked.
- ThrowawayR2 2y agoSomething like that has already been implemented before in a corporate environment: "Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside" (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-recognition-office-workers-china-canon https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/17/22538160/ai-camera-smile-...)
- mh- 2y agoThis is an interesting idea (the first one..) and I suspect it'd be quite easy to build now. Someone posted a web app recently that reminds you to blink (iff you don't), and it was incredibly accurate for me, running fully in the browser.
- jorisboris 2y agoI believe the challenge was to access the volume settings from a browser web page (I wanted it to be a web app) Not sure if that’s solved