Apple is working on a number of new projects and technologies to help identify stress, depression, anxiety and cognitive decline, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apple is trying to develop algorithms to reliably help detect and diagnose a variety of mental health problems using a user’s biometric data. These projects are being implemented in partnership with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the biotech firm Biogen.
In collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles, Apple is working on an algorithm that will detect stress, depression and anxiety, and the project is codenamed Seabreeze. A joint project with Biogen, codenamed Pi, is supposed to help recognize mild cognitive impairments.
The technology will make these diagnostic decisions by analyzing users’ facial expressions, their manner of speaking, the frequency and speed of their walks, their sleep patterns, and finally, their heart rate and breathing rate. But that’s not all, as the technology will obviously also check for the error rate in printing, as well as the type of messages that users write, and possibly much more.
To avoid data privacy issues, no data analysis will be sent to Apple’s servers: everything will be done on users’ devices.
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