Monitoring Moods with Mobiles

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Can new technologies probe human thoughts and feelings without us even realising? This week we talk to a researcher who's using mobile phones to tap into peoples' emotions to provide new insights into human behaviour and even spot the triggers that might be encouraging someone to smoke. Plus, how data mining and computer simulations can identify the patterns of behaviour that predate disasters so they can be predicted - and prevented - in future. And with the surge in online social media of the last 5 years, is statistics capable of keeping up when it comes to doing research using these... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists. Hello, it's Sunday the 11th of December.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Naked Scientists. Hello it's Sunday the 11th of December.
0:23.4	Welcome to the Naked Scientists I'm Chris Smith and also here with this this week is
0:26.9	Cat Arnie Hello Cat.
0:27.9	Hello.
0:28.9	Now this week we're looking at how new technologies are enabling us to probe human behavior and even the spread of disease
0:36.1	in greater detail than we've ever been able to do before.
0:39.5	But today we can monitor Google and find out where the flu is by looking how many people
0:44.6	and where are the people that are checking for symptoms of flu, they can predict the
0:49.3	wave of the flu in the world two weeks before the World Health Organization does it.
0:54.0	And in the news how cancers control their own spread, the discovery of a caveman's bed, and
0:59.6	how the brains of London cabbies grow bigger in some areas and I don't mean elephant and castle
1:05.2	as they learn to navigate the streets of London.
1:08.0	So if you have any comments or questions for us, you can tweet in to at naked scientists you can write on our
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1:20.1	email to Chris at the Naked Scientist.com.
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1:35.0	And up for social scientists have been taking advantage of mobile phones and social networking sites to unobtrusively capture vast amounts of information in order to analyze our behavior.
1:49.0	And to discuss how such tactics are deployed is Dr. Jason Renfrolfro from the University of Cambridge.
1:54.6	Hello Jason.
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