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Ourselves and Our Interactions: The Ultimate Physics Problem?

SciencePublished 23 July 2009
Adrian Cho
Citations39
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62

TL;DR

With €3.6 million of support from the European Union, a research team aims to develop a computer program that can analyze dialogue from Internet chat rooms and tell when people are growing excited, angry, and so on.

Abstract

In the field of complex socioeconomic systems, physicists and others analyze people almost as if they were interchangeable electrons. Can that approach decipher society and what ails it?

Keywords

Social SciencesPhysics and Astronomy