What Your Cell Phone Knows About You

Can your cell phone tell if you're happy or overworked?

Researchers at MIT think it can do that and more--separate the rich from the poor, the sick from the healthy, even the outgoing from the introverted.

Sandy Pentland, director of MIT's Human Dynamics Research program, has focused his work on that unlikely task: using gadgets as simple as a cell phone to better understand the quirks and patterns of human behavior.

[via Forbes]

emily | 10:16 AM | SMS Studies & Research |
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