Photos: The future of mobile life - in the lab

The academics cooking up tomorrow's mobile apps...

By Natasha Lomas, 26 June 2009 12:08

This is one of the projects the team is working on, called FriendSense, aimed at allowing groups of friends or colleagues to express their underlying emotions.

The display pictured above shows the emotion status of the group - with each person represented by a coloured 'marble'.

Each marble can be customised with pictures and patterns to better reflect their mood - one marble here features a sleepy cartoon, for example, to show the person it represents is tired.

The marbles can be uploaded to the screen and positioned close to or far away from other marbles, depending on each person's current mood and how sociable they are feeling.

Photo credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

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