| 15th August 2005 - Have you ever had the experience where
you call someone up and they don't seem to be paying attention
to you?
The Jerk-O-Meter (or JerkoMeter) is a real-time speech feature
analysis application that runs on your VOIP phone or cellphone
that remedies precisely that experience. It uses speech features
for activity and stress (and soon empathy) to measure if you
are 'being a jerk' on the phone. The phone displays messages
in case you are, and can also be setup to inform the person
on the other end of the line that you're extremely busy.
Project leader Anmol Madan, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT
Media Lab, said his wife came up with the product name as
they were discussing his research on using speech patterns
to measure interest in conversations.
The current version oft the application runs in Linux on
the Zaurus VOIP phone. It uses Ron Caneel's code to extract
the activity and stress levels in real-time. For more information
about the features used, refer to the "Voices of Attraction"
paper in the publications section.
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