New app monitors temper, behaviour in...parents


  • TECH
  • Monday, 09 Jun 2014

Equipped with cardiac rhythm monitors to gauge stress levels, a new app called developed by computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego could keep frustrated parents in line. 

When the sensory wristband detects stress, intervention follows by means of a smartphone on which the app presents research-based techniques to ease emotionally charged interactions between parent and child. 

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