A startup’s bold plan for a mood-predicting smartphone app is shadowed by questions over evidence

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An interesting article,
Two things for me - "collecting scientific data on a person’s digital life, to gain insights into his or her physical or mental health.’ and being open to independent peer review of data collected.

Is there research in this area, how reliable is a person’s digital life a true reflection on the physical or mental health?

The company says its app can predict your mood based on how you use your phone. But almost no one outside Mindstrong has seen data on how well it works.

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That’d be funny if you can tell everything about a person by they way they scroll their smartphone or click on a button.
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Really interested in the various directions of technology development. This one appears to need more work and I suspect marketing the app is about preparing for revenue gathering. The work of the professor from MIT looks promising.
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