Ever feel like you have so many friends you need an app to oragnize them by personal benefit to you and how they make you feel? Well, first of all, congratulations on your popularity. Secondly, that app exists and it's called pplpkr.
Ever feel like you have so many friends you need an app to organize them by personal benefit to you and how they make you feel? Well, first of all, congratulations on your popularity. Secondly, that app exists and it's called pplpkr.
The app, which was created by social hackers Kyle McDonald and Lauren McCarthy, essentially digitizes your coffee dates and analyzes the awkward algorithms of ex-roommate reunions, giving you statistical insight to your social interactions.
Pplkpr works by pairing a bluetooth-enabled wristband with GPS and heart rate monitors within the iOS app to manually record their emotional reactions and measure their physical responses to personal interactions.
By analyzing the balance between the data from users' sympathetic and parasympathetic responses to people, it gives feedback on “heart rate variability.” Finally, using open data algorithms developed over the past year by researchers, clean-cut mathematics simplify messy emotions into easy-to-read icons telling you how you feel about what's-his-face and so-and-so. It's all based on how you you unconsciously feel about someone, which inevitably boils down to how much they can benefit you.
Beyond analyzing social statistics, pplkpr autonomously acts upon this data and creates automatic texts, schedule more hangouts using your phone's calendar, or block and delete unwanted friends. All you have to do is kinda hate the person you're talking to and badda bing, badda bang, their number is out of your phone so you can honestly say "I lost your number!" when they confront you about never calling their stinky butts.
As the team says on pplkpr’s website, “We are two artists that created it as a provocation, a taste of where we may be heading with our quantified living and algorithmic decision making.”
Translation: ditching your friends has never ben easier.
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