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- ukit
http://technology.timesonline.co…
Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer’s assessment of their physiological state.
Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read “heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure”, the application states.
The system could also “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user” and “offer and provide assistance accordingly”. Physical changes to an employee would be matched to an individual psychological profile based on a worker’s weight, age and health. If the system picked up an increase in heart rate or facial expressions suggestive of stress or frustration, it would tell management that he needed help.
WTF!
- spendogg0
they would prolly find out that 99% of the workers are a decaf latte away from going postal.
- Llyod0
The Apple version of this will have a rectal insert.
- sikma0
ya why worry. its being developed by microsoft. which means it will come out at a time when everyone else has it and it will nothing but constatnly crash.
- elPaulo0
"The system could also “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user” "
This Microsoft System is going to be busy then. Everytime I use that.....that.....uuuh operating system, I feel frustration and stress. Everytime I design for IE I feel frustration and stress.
- joyride0
part of the FCS?
http://www.army.mil/fcs/soldier.…
- ********0
I guess they've finally found a ligitimate use of the blink tag, then..
