A look behind Accenture's "persuasive mirror"

There's been a lot of buzz on Accenture's "persuasive mirror" — an electronic mirror that digitally morphs your image to encourage you to make lifestyle changes — but the folks at New Scientist trumped us all and actually got a look at it. Turns out the mirror builds a lifestyle profile based on feeds from cameras mounted around your home. Software can tag your habits and feed data to the mirror, allowing it to show you, say, as a dissolute wreck if you've been hitting the bottle a little too much. Whether the trade-off in privacy (not to mention the inevitable cost) is worth it to anyone remains to be seen; we can't help but assume that this is one of those "home of the future" proof-of-concept projects that journalists will groove over for years, but which will never actually make it into any homes.

[Via Near Near Future]
 

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

I must be thick but I dont get it... What's it supposed to do, the article said "allowing it to show you, say, as a dissolute wreck"

If it knew you were, then why would it need to show you that - on top of what you already look like ?

Is it April 1st already ?

This is faux surely ?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

From my understanding of the article, it would manipulate the image of the person as they are normally... to show them as "the dissolute wreck" would be the manipulation for what their future self would look like based on the fact that they had been drinking too often. It enhances the image and changes it I believe.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

If it looks like something from the Liberace collection I'd never have it anywhere near my home.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

hmm.. does their mirror read brainwaves like mine?
http://neuromirror.info/

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