{"id":3591,"date":"2021-11-07T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T07:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/the-dawn-of-tappigraphy-does-your-smartphone-know-how-you-feel-before-you-do\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T07:41:45","slug":"the-dawn-of-tappigraphy-does-your-smartphone-know-how-you-feel-before-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/07\/the-dawn-of-tappigraphy-does-your-smartphone-know-how-you-feel-before-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health \u2013 with potential consequences for privacy and healthcare<\/p>\n

We all fear our smartphones spy on us, and I\u2019m subject to a new type of surveillance. An app called TapCounter<\/a> records each time I touch my phone\u2019s screen. My swipes and jabs are averaging about 1,000 a day, though I notice that\u2019s falling as I steer shy of social media to meet my deadline. The European company behind it, QuantActions<\/a>, promises that through capturing and analysing the data it will be able to \u201cdetect important indicators related to mental\/neurological health\u201d.<\/p>\n

Arko Ghosh is the company\u2019s cofounder and a neuroscientist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. \u201cTappigraphy patterns\u201d \u2013 the time series of my touches \u2013 can, he says, confidently be used not only to infer slumber habits (tapping in the wee hours means you are not sleeping) but also mental performance level (the small intervals in a series of key-presses represent a proxy for reaction time), and he has published work<\/a> to support it.<\/p>\n

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\nTech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health \u2013 with potential consequences for privacy and healthcare
\nWe all fear our smartphones spy on us, and I\u2019m subject to a new type of surveillance. An app called TapCounter records each time I touch my phone\u2019s screen. My swipes and jabs are averaging about 1,000 a day, though I notice that\u2019s falling as I steer shy of social media to meet my deadline. The European company behind it, QuantActions, promises that through capturing and analysing the data it will be able to \u201cdetect important indicators related to mental\/neurological health\u201d.
\nArko Ghosh is the company\u2019s cofounder and a neuroscientist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. \u201cTappigraphy patterns\u201d \u2013 the time series of my touches \u2013 can, he says, confidently be used not only to infer slumber habits (tapping in the wee hours means you are not sleeping) but also mental performance level (the small intervals in a series of key-presses represent a proxy for reaction time), and he has published work to support it. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health \u2013 with potential consequences for privacy and healthcare We all fear our smartphones spy on us, and I\u2019m subject to a new type of surveillance. An app called TapCounter records each time I touch …<\/p>\n

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