Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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A Friendship App

Pplkpr attempts to manage the user's friendships by tracking how people influence each other in positive or negative ways.  When they are good for each other, it prompts them to spend more time together.  When the results are negative, it pushes them apart.  For most people this is useless or even destructive.  But for some -- people with depression, alexithymia, autism, or any other condition that makes emotional awareness and/or social dynamics cloudy -- it may be a valuable piece of adaptive equipment.  (Of course, you still need the spoons to act on its prompts, which is a bottleneck for some people.)  I don't know how good this early version is, but I suspect that some kind of program for this could be made effective.
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ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

January 28 2015, 06:52:26 UTC 6 years ago

Monitoring heart rate is clever. If I were making things like this, I would include a mood tracker that prompts you to enter your mood before and after an encounter.

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ysabetwordsmith

Re: Well...

ysabetwordsmith

January 28 2015, 07:54:22 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, it sounded like that.