The British Broadcasting Corporation (me. Me. C) on Wednesday that the application that the researchers called "Sense Sensibility", combines information from smart phone users around the bustling environment and people who contact them, and then compares them to the mood of the situation of the users.
The source explained that the application is part of a project to learn ways in which they can use mobile phones to improve the overall health and well-being.
The researchers believe in the computer lab at the University of Cambridge that their experience is the first in which they are collecting data users with information on their phones.
And attributed body to the administrator about the experience of Professor Jason Rantafro from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, saying it aims to use a more flexible approach than just look at the emotions in terms of the feeling of happiness, sadness, anger or feeling neutral, to collect data that show how different temperaments among the people.
The Rantafro considered that this experience quite unique through the system, which was designed to measure happiness, which will help to understand how people perceive things, and how their behavior in reality.
The University of Cambridge researchers requires the smart phone users to provide their consent in advance, before you use their data to measure the degree of happiness they have.
