Monitoring Moods with Mobiles
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Can new technologies probe human thoughts and feelings without us even realising? This week we talk to a researcher who's using mobile phones to tap into peoples' emotions to provide new insights into human behaviour and even spot the triggers that might be encouraging someone to smoke. Plus, how data mining and computer simulations can identify the patterns of behaviour that predate disasters so they can be predicted - and prevented - in future. And with the surge in online social media of the last 5 years, is statistics capable of keeping up when it comes to doing research using these resources? Meanwhile, in the news, we hear what causes cancer to spread, how ancient stone age man used bug-repellent bedding and how a Taxi driver's brain changes as he learns "the knowledge" of London's streets...
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Social scientists have been taking advantage of mobile phones and social networking sites to unobtrusively capture vast amounts of information in order to analyse our behaviour. We discuss how such tactics are deployed...
If we collect enough data about our behaviour, can we start to make models that can begin to reveal the hidden rules of how we behave?
How does cancer spread? And how we can stop it from spreading? Published in this week's issue of the journal Nature, Ilaria Malanchi and her colleagues have made an important step forward in answering these questions...
Bedding 77,000 years old has been uncovered at a cave site in South Africa....
The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to cancer...
Qualified London taxi drivers know their way around over 25,000 streets in the capital. And, if you scan their brains, you find that the structure called the hippocampus is much bigger than it is in the average non-taxi driver. But was it bigger to begin with, or did learning ...
Bed Bugs travelling from abroad, why night shifts increase a female's chance of diabetes and how to deter the unwanted affection of a fish...
Richard Hollingham investigates why ozone depletion sparked unanimous change around the World in 1987 and whether a similar feat could be achieved to fight Climate Change...
Given that people are increasingly using crowd source data in their research, are old style stats still up to the job? Arnoldo Frigessi explores...
It’s just zeros and ones so how does a computer actually spot meaningful trends in this very complex social data that we’re not providing?
How do you analyse data without having a presupposition of what you're actually looking for? Because that's important too. You're actually biasing the search system.
All these data analysis are very well but really, is it any more complicated than just hand writing analysis gone bonkers? Is this really meaningful?
Emotion detecting technology sounds like a good thing for those with autistic spectrum disorders who struggle to accurately read affect in others. How might their smartphones be able to help? Will it work in real time??
The drive to procreate is one of the most powerful forces on earth. To assure procreation, nature offers as a "bribe" a certain amount of physical pleasure. This is easy to understand for those species who actually make physical contact during copulation, but fish remain a total ...
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