Sometimes it’s tough to determine who’s a frenemy and who’s more than a friend, and now hard data can do the heavy lifting.
The new app Pplkpr (pronounced “People Keeper”) aims to identify trends in your relationships so that you can “optimize your social life,” tracking a user’s friendships and feelings to identify positive influences and toxic ones.
The app works by examining your Facebook friend list, connecting to a Bluetooth heartrate monitor such as Mio, and monitoring your emotional and physical responses when you’re with certain people. That data is combined with self-reported responses, and over time patterns are identified, so that the app determines which friends are likely to cause emotions including anxiety, anger, excitement or arousal.
If that sounds a little dystopian, that’s kind of the point. Pplkpr was developed by Carnegie Mellon artists-in-residence Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, who consider it both an app and an “art project” to see how much personal data people are willing to submit.
One catch: it only measures IRL interactions. So if you’re working up a sweat trying to think of a text for someone, you’ll have to interpret that yourself. Check out the video below for more info.
via News
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