單身者福音 幫你找伴侶或好友的手機應用

Scientists have devised software which will allow smart phones to do much more than keep you in contact with family and friends.

Very soon, they claim, phones will be helping users make new friends by suggesting places to go where people with similar interests are likely to congregate.

The system – named Jyotish after the Sanskrit term for Hindu astrology – creates a map of people's movements by tracking the wi-fi and Bluetooth connections on their phones to within around ten metres.

Eventually the technology would be able to go one step further, by matching their identities to social profiles and spotting situations where they may encounter a potential love match or work client.

The software was devised by Boeing scientists to predict the movement of its work crews in their huge aircraft factories.

But there are privacy and safety issues, said Peter Bentley, a computer scientist at University College London.

He said: "What if anyone could predict exactly where you will be and who you will be with? It is a stalker's dream."據英國《每日郵報》11月23日報道，科學家設計出了一款軟件，可以讓智能手機擁有更多功能，不僅僅只是讓你保持與家人和朋友的聯繫。

科學家聲稱，很快手機就能夠幫助用戶交友了，它會建議用戶去一些與其志趣相投的人可能會聚集的地方。

這種新型系統——名爲Jyotish，是“印度占星術”的梵語——通過追蹤方圓十米以內手機上的wi-fi(無線區域網絡)和藍牙連接，製出一幅人們活動的地圖。

最後，這種技術還會更進一步地將用戶的身份與社會形象相匹配，並指出他們也許會遇見可能的愛人或工作客戶的地點。

該款軟件是由波音公司設計開發的，是爲了能夠在龐大的飛機制造廠預測到工作成員可能的活動。

但是倫敦大學學院的一名計算機科學家彼得·賓利說，這項應用可能會涉及隱私和安全的問題。

他說：“如何任何人都能準確地預測到你會出現在哪兒，你將和誰呆在一起，那會有什麼後果呢？所以這不過是癡人說夢。”