Imagine that a smartphone will let know that you
are feeling bored by analysing your activities. An algorithm has been developed
by researchers which check your activity on smartphone and then give buzz about
the feeling status.
A research was conducted at Telefonica Research in
Barcelona, Spain which was based on analysing the mobile activity by
considering various factors like the time since a user has a call, text, the
time of day and how intensely the mobile was used by its user.
This data was looked and a reliable prediction of
boredom as often as 83% of the time was given. An alert was also sent to the
smartphone users to checkout an article on Buzzfeed, which people who were
judged bored clicked on more often than people who were not.
First the researchers determined the characteristics
of boredom by using an App to ask participants to rate level of boredom several
times a day for a period of 15 days.
Then the responses were compared with other data
taken from other phones to measure things like how many Apps they used and how
intensely the phone was used overall.
Researchers also built one more App to validate the
resulting algorithm that concluded on its own whether the smartphone user was
bored and it sent alerts to their phone asking for their opinion of they really
wanted to read an article on Buzzfeed’s new App.
Meanwhile a separated study was conducted for 15
days in which it was found that people who feel bored were more likely to lick
on alert to see the story, and also looking to spend time at it as compared to
those who were randomly sent alert.
