App MoodCapture regularly records a person’s surroundings and facial emotions with their phone’s front camera. Then, it looks at the pictures to see if there are any clinical signs of sadness. The app correctly identified early signs of sadness 75% of the time in a study with 177 people who were diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
The paper’s lead author, Andrew Campbell, said
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So far, this is the first time that pictures taken “in the wild” have been used to predict sadness.
A similar set of technologies is used by MoodCapture, which combines deep learning and AI hardware with face recognition technology. “All someone has to do is unlock their phone, and MoodCapture knows how their depression works and can tell them to get help.”
