News this week from the University of Southern Mississippi; Professor of psychology, Dr. David Echevarria, is planning to use the new iPhone application Moodagent, created by Syntonetic Inc., in order to examine the impact of music on emotions.
What is Moodagent? It’s an iPhone application that creates playlists adjusted to your emotional state. You make sure that the tracks have a matching profile, then the application automatically creates playlists at your command. Over 1 billion tracks worldwide have already been synced to their matching profile, which is why this living and breathing application has become such a huge hit on the iPhone apps scene. Furthermore, its surprisingly accurate.
Dr. David Echevarria, who works at the behavioral neuroscience laboratory, hopes to use “Moodagent as a teaching tool to stimulate conversation, learning and critical thinking in the area of emotions and psychology.”
This 21st century piece of software has created a wave of excitement in the science world, with Echevarria commenting on the potential of the application, “as a psychologist, I am fascinated that a mobile application can discern subtle and elusive emotional qualities in music… Moodagent is essentially a form of artificial social intelligence.”
Wouldn’t it be great if we could change the Terminator’s iPod playlist to ‘chilled-out’?
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