The “Misü” platform is a mood tracking solution for those looking for a simple and intuitive way to track their emotions and daily mood.
Misü works by using artificial intelligence (AI) to take photos throughout the day and take facial expressions into account. The goal is to automatically detect a person's mood in addition to their voluntary mood recordings. The system takes everything into account, even microexpressions (even half-closed eyes) to rate happiness and anxiety on a scale of zero to 100 and allow users to better understand how they might feel on a daily basis. You can download it here.
A diary made of looks
Like a "dog" that looks at its owner to understand what the mood is, but does it dozens of times a day. And with an artificial intelligence algorithm that makes it learn more and more, and faster. To the point of telling ourselves that no, our optimistic statements about the future are not deceiving: we are worried. To the point of telling us when we are lying to ourselves. A form of intelligent self-help that cannot and will never replace conversations with friends, or even better the activity of a professional psychologist. But Misü is a tool that can help us understand a bit more of our propensities, and our way of reacting to things in life.
What about privacy?
The problem is clear: providing a company with even the tracking of our emotions can make us increasingly vulnerable. For example, this data could be used “against us” by offering us purchases at times of greater vulnerability. The top management of the company that created Misü is therefore quick to say that they are focused on a person's mood, not on the use of data. “We take privacy very seriously by performing all calculations on the user's computer and never uploading content to a remote server,” we read on the app's official website.
On the other hand, we already monitor how many steps we take, how much we sleep, and even what we eat.
