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Jerk-O-Meter keeps callers in line.(OFFBEAT SOUND CHECK)(Brief Article)
Wireless Week, September, 2005 by Alleven, Monica
Leave it to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to come up with a technology good enough to determine whether someone is being a jerk. As part of a project based on predicting people's behavior, researchers developed the Jerk-O-Meter, a prototype real-time speech analyzer application running in Linux on a Sharp Zaurus VoIP phone.
From a technical perspective, the Jerk-O-Meter easily could be converted into a downloadable cell phone app. researchers say. The project is the work of Anmol Madan, a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Madan's adviser and a pioneer in wearable and socially aware computing. Specifically, the Jerk-O-Meter uses speech features that measure activity and...
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