How to measure happiness and other emotions?Marius Stein Software Engineer, happimeter.org, MIT

05.06.2018

Mood Sensing Recommender Systems will be a Commodity in

5 – 10 years

“Happiness is a state of activity!”

Aristoteles (384 BCE – 322 BCE)

“Activity is measurable by wearable sensors”

Every fitness tracker out there!

Happimeter - Introduction

Smart watch based body sensor:

Polls user about wellbeing, productivity, stress…

Records body signals of wearer

Use machine learning to predict mood

Happimeter – Input

Happimeter - Sensors

Accelerometer Heart-rate-monitor

Location (GPS)

Step Counter Current Activity

Weather

Microphone Proximity

Happimeter - In Numbers

On three dimensions

94% 86%

On all nine

dimensions

Mood Prediction Accuracy

Happimeter – Mood Drivers

What drives your mood?

Weather MovementExternal Driver Internal Driver

Happimeter in Organizations

How to bring your collaboration to the next level with the happimeter?

Collaboration Quality

We can measure and improve

collaboration Quality!

Emotion Dashboard

We can show you how stressed your

colleagues are!

Outline Information Flow

We can outline the informal

communication network!

Current Projects

Mood controlled lighting

Use sensor data to assess mood state

in office (e.g. stressed, tired vs. people

working together in flow)

Change lighting to induce desired mood

state. Measure and validate change in

mood state

Creativity workshop

• Three day creativity workshop at German Banking company• 28 participants, 15 wearing Happimeter, 3 Groups• Team tasks: solve a problem employing creative methods• Metrics: self evaluated group creativity score

The Findings

Goals

• Happimeter Body Signals correlate with creative performance?

• How strong is the correlation?

• Movement influences creativeperformance

• Some Body signals similar aspersonality traits and mood statesin predicting creativity

Multilevel linear model metricsDependent Variable: Creativity ScoreParticipant as random interceptAIC: 10118.7 BIC: 10224.61Std. deviation random effect: 1.818

Results

How you can benefit?

Outline Informal Communication

Measure Work Satisfaction

Improve Knowledge Flow

Thank You for Your Attention

Marius Stein <mstein@mit.edu>

05.06.2018

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