Squirrel helps with mobile calls
Emotional Intelligence coming to a cell phone near you ...
"Whether we are having a private conversation, snowed under with work, or just not in the mood to speak to anyone, the phone keeps ringing.
MIT research student Stefan Marti may have the answer: ditch your mobile phone, and get a squirrel.
Specifically, an animatronic desktop squirrel which deals with your calls for you. The squirrel answers phone calls, works out if you are busy or asleep, evaluates how important the incoming call is and takes messages.
When it wants to alert its owner to a call, it waves and moves about rather than making a sound. And, it is ridiculously cute.
"If you have a less intelligent metaphor that you base your interface on, humans are less likely to be disappointed with the limits of the interaction," he told the BBC News website.
The key principle behind the Autonomous Interactive Intermediary (AII), or "cellular squirrel", is that machines should display what psychologists call social or emotional intelligence." continued ... (Via BBC NEWS)
"Whether we are having a private conversation, snowed under with work, or just not in the mood to speak to anyone, the phone keeps ringing.
MIT research student Stefan Marti may have the answer: ditch your mobile phone, and get a squirrel.
Specifically, an animatronic desktop squirrel which deals with your calls for you. The squirrel answers phone calls, works out if you are busy or asleep, evaluates how important the incoming call is and takes messages.
When it wants to alert its owner to a call, it waves and moves about rather than making a sound. And, it is ridiculously cute.
"If you have a less intelligent metaphor that you base your interface on, humans are less likely to be disappointed with the limits of the interaction," he told the BBC News website.
The key principle behind the Autonomous Interactive Intermediary (AII), or "cellular squirrel", is that machines should display what psychologists call social or emotional intelligence." continued ... (Via BBC NEWS)
Let a squirl answer your phone.
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