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Would be interesting to use this to track your facial emotion in relation to what you are doing at your computer; e.g. facebooking, reading news, working, etc.

If you're a developer, what kind of programming you're doing, language, platform, etc. Could scientifically prove once and for all whether or not Ruby is optimized for programmer happiness.




In the quantified self heyday I created an app that takes a webcam pic every half hour which was popular in the Bay Area QS community. I’ve had it running almost 10 years now.

Bottom line: people don’t show much emotion while looking at screens. The only exception was video calls.

Project site: http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/

Early talk: https://vimeo.com/42239564


You can use ActivityWatch to gather the data.




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