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SmileTracker, l'application qui épie vos émotions
(SmileTracker, the app that is spying on your emotions)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | SmileTracker is an app that can detect smiles thanks to a face recognition system. Users can gather all their pictures in one "smile gallery" and then share them on the SmileTracker website or Facebook. If people see those pictures, it can trigger positive emotions and a general well-being. This SmileTracker app is one of MIT's experiments. Researchers at MIT want to create machines capable of recognizing and measuring human emotions.
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Quand l'usage du smartphone risque de virer à l'addiction
(When the use of smartphone can lead to addiction)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | A third of young people between 18 and 24 claim that they look at their phone more than 50 times a day. People are more and more addicted to their smartphone, and we should be worried about that. The "Days without smartphones" were created 16 years ago because of this new trend. 41% of French people state that they look at their smartphone in the middle of the night, and 81% say that they use their smartphone while having a meal with friends or family. People are anxious if they don't have their phone. We talk about nomophobia to characterize this new health problem.
Image Description | Photograph of three young people looking at their phone and smiling
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Du SMS au smartphone, vingt ans à se réinventer
(From SMS to smartphone, twenty years to reinvent oneself)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting
Summary | The app Shazam was created in 1990, but at that time iTunes and iPhone did not exist. At first, people had to call a number and play the song to an answering machine and would receive the name of the song via text message.
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Mattel lance une intelligence artificielle pour veiller sur les enfants
(Mattel launches an artificial intelligence tool to watch over children)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, privacy, smartphone
Summary | Mattel presented its new AI assistant to be used in children's bedrooms. The assistant (Aristotle) goes off if a child is crying in the middle of the night, for instance. Then, parents receive a notification on their smartphone. Aristotle is supposed to understand toddlers' language and to develop/evolve with them. The assistant can talk to toddlers and play music.
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L'explosion des troubles chez les tout-petits surexposés aux écrans
(Rise of disorders in toddlers overexposed to screens)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, school, smartphone
Summary | Toddlers overexposed to screens seem to demonstrate symptoms similar to autism, a doctor says. Toddlers have already access to smartphones. Sofiane, for instance, got his first tablet at the age of 18 months. His kindergarten teacher noticed that he never wanted to sit next to his peers, and would often space out. Moreover, he always needed an adult next to him to guide him. Those "screen children"often exhibit developmental delays as well as relationship, language and behavioral disorders. Children shouldn't have access to screens before 3. Some parents think that giving their toddlers "learning tablets" will help them in the future.
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