Comments on: Microsoft’s “Absolutely Outdated” Biometric Employee Monitor http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: pf http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-161630 pf Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:43:06 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-161630 If you can monitor employees can you also use the sensors to control them? If you can monitor employees can you also use the sensors to control them?

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-109868 Fred Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:36:12 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-109868 Thank you for the comment and link, Vanst. I do agree that monitoring body functions may prove useful for UI labs and such; however, my comment is not about being a "usual anti-Microsoft scare monger", as you suggest, instead monitoring employees is specifically mentioned as claim no. 20 in the patent application document. Thank you for the comment and link, Vanst. I do agree that monitoring body functions may prove useful for UI labs and such; however, my comment is not about being a “usual anti-Microsoft scare monger”, as you suggest, instead monitoring employees is specifically mentioned as claim no. 20 in the patent application document.

]]> By: Vanst http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-109808 Vanst Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:19:18 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2008/01/18/microsofts-absolutely-outdated-biometric-employee-monitor/#comment-109808 Way to completely miss the point of the software which is to detect user frustration with user interfaces, it's purpose is for focus groups and UI development but of course the media and the usual anti-Microsoft scare mongers go into spin mode & turn it into something else. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080103-microsoft-patents-frustration-detecting-help-system.html Way to completely miss the point of the software which is to detect user frustration with user interfaces, it’s purpose is for focus groups and UI development but of course the media and the usual anti-Microsoft scare mongers go into spin mode & turn it into something else.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080103-microsoft-patents-frustration-detecting-help-system.html

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