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[BuddyC]

This sounds very Apple-ish in design, but yesterday the notion of being able to set "moods" on your computer came up in a conversation. The basic idea was that the background, applications and shortcuts then change to reflect your set mood - altering your playlists, who can see you're online and so forth.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I like it!

 

[Ecrofirt]

Shut up!

 

[Zaptruder]

This sounds very Apple-ish in design, but yesterday the notion of being able to set "moods" on your computer came up in a conversation. The basic idea was that the background, applications and shortcuts then change to reflect your set mood - altering your playlists, who can see you're online and so forth.

You know what this will require right? The Emotion Engine!

 

[sc0la]

This sounds very Apple-ish in design, but yesterday the notion of being able to set "moods" on your computer came up in a conversation. The basic idea was that the background, applications and shortcuts then change to reflect your set mood - altering your playlists, who can see you're online and so forth.

You could impliment a sort of biometric device in the mouse that would assess the mood, or something like the force of keystrokes on the keyboard. The problem would be giving up a certain amount of control on the users part, I think a fair number of people would be bothered by it when it is so transparent.

Setting up moods and being able to switch between them would be more appealing, but less interesting in the end because it would amount to a robust "theme"

I think toyota did a concept car with moods recently

 

[BuddyC]

Another notion was an iPod-esque MP3 player that used a sensor to somehow detect your current mood and choose tracks based off that.

 

[sc0la]

Another notion was an iPod-esque MP3 player that used a sensor to somehow detect your current mood and choose tracks based off that.

as long as it learned moods. When you normally select songs in a certain mood it starts to remember those and when you put it in modd mode it picks those songs for you.

its the new "shuffle"

 

[B'z-chan]

This sounds like a great idea. I always have wondered if someone would do something like this. I hate coming to any computer and having the same setup. I like things to be different. I feel that in order to do this though. We need to think of computing on a different level. Not just what type of programs to show. But how we run things out of the PC.

Stay with me here.

Like say your in the mood to watch video and photos. Instead of using just the processor for codecs and the like i think we should use the GPU. Its much faster, but have it running in the background. Not where you have to change it manually. You would have to change the mood, but everything else is taken over by the os.

Think about it for those who play games too. Thats hardware intensive. So you lock out programs that arent needed and just have the game. It would add performance things like that.

An almost invisible os for when your surfing the net that would be great.

Unfortunatly this all takes ideas time and money. All of which is going to be stolen by Apple or MS soon enough.

But i like the idea.

 

[Ghost]

It's one step away from having your computer decide your mood for you.



Im all for less work for me, so im in.

 

[Jonnyram]

Hey BuddyC... this isn't exactly what you're talking about, but you might be interested in it anyway.
http://www.moodstats.com/