The Amazon Halo Band, announced a few days ago, is a nice, lightweight fitness tracker that collects stats on your well-being throughout the day. Then the Halo companion app presents it all in one well-designed app so you can spot trends and take action to improve your health and well-being. It's also pretty scary. Halo not only tracks your steps, sleep patterns, and activity levels (so far that's normal), it also monitors your tone of voice, tracking how you interact with others and warning you if your voice is low on energy. and positivity”. As one of my colleagues pointed out, it looks like a digitally outsourced Santa checking to see if you've been naughty or nice. This judged sound metric is calculated using voice samples recorded with a built-in microphone. Amazon assures potential users that these snippets are removed after being scanned and that you can mute the microphone at any time, but I can't help but wonder what its purpose is.
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In fact, the workplace is the only place I can see a demand for something like this, a step after the automated monitoring of services and software that is already happening at some companies. Humanyze is one of many companies helping workplaces monitor employee mood, productivity and engagement by dealing with the use of email, calendars, video conferencing and biometric sensor data. . The resulting analysis can be used to check employee job satisfaction and see how large groups are responding to changes.
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