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Patent art flowchart showing two phones connected. One phone says "Empathy is shared and actions are sent and received in cognitive empathy" and the other says "Empathy is perceived and actions are sent" They both involve wearable bands (with hands pointing at those boxes for some reason" The one phone has a box saying "Empathy is shared and actions are sent and received in emotional empathy." The other says "Empathetic actions can include asking for a user self-assessment inquiries including pinging the user with "Are you ok?"

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Patent art flowchart showing two phones connected. One phone says "Empathy is shared and actions are sent and received in cognitive empathy" and the other says "Empathy is perceived and actions are sent" They both involve wearable bands (with hands pointing at those boxes for some reason" The one phone has a box saying "Empathy is shared and actions are sent and received in emotional empathy." The other says "Empathetic actions can include asking for a user self-assessment inquiries including pinging the user with "Are you ok?"
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Brendan Sinclair (brendansinclair@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:14:55 JST Brendan Sinclair
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One idea seems to be that you could connect users so that if, for example, someone you were close to suddenly was having a Very Bad Time, you could reach out to check in on them.
I'm skeptical that emotional state can be properly inferred from physical metrics with a useful degree of accuracy and generally don't like efforts to boil down the mystery of human existence to numbers, but OK, maybe someone could find that helpful?

In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.social permalink