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Sure, technology that supposedly reads human emotion has been on the scene for a while,

along with concerns about its use. But now it looks like Apple may be getting in on the game.

The tech titan is reportedly developing AI-powered mood tracking for Apple watches. Daniel

Kraft is a physician scientist and the founder of Digital.Health. He says wearable emotion

recognition could achieve something that's been difficult in mental health care real-time response.

The standard element for clinically measuring something like depression or stress and anxiety

is to ask someone to fill out a survey in real time, which takes the matter of maybe their

current emotional state and isn't the most engaging or reliable way to get a true picture of

someone's internal state or experience over time. I think the potential now is to collect those

things seamlessly and start to layer them up from gain of wearables, our voice, our environment,

our movement. And when we start to get a better picture and a predictive ability, I'd like to

call it, predict analytics of where someone might be with their overall health. And if we can start

to optimize them, we can make a big dent on both public health and individual health going forward.

Yeah, I've seen some idea that this could include like a virtual coach. I mean, is that

something consumers want? I think health care, particularly in this new world of digital health,

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