XPOD - A Human Activity and Emotion Aware Mobile Music Player

XPod automates the process of manually choosing music best suited for a user's current activity. The success of the initial implementation of XPod concepts provides the basis for further exploration of human- and emotion-aware mobile systems. Our current work is investigating the notion of closed loop emotion based mobile devices. Such new user experiences should be considered possible (if not highly probable) components of future user experience and technology. While preliminary, the XPod work presented here is an attempt is to provide an activity and state aware user experience, producing a technology that may change the way people experience digital music on mobile devices