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9 Jan 2023
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Embracing Emotion in Data-Aware Software Design

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By Tyrone Showers
Co-Founder Taliferro

Introduction

We're all familiar with the idea that computers can help us make better decisions by analyzing data. But what about the emotional aspects of those decisions? That's where data-aware software comes in, and it's changing how we interact with machines and each other daily.

Consider the emotional aspects

It's also essential that your organization take the emotional aspects of its workers into account when designing data-aware software. The software needs to be designed in a way that is consistent with human emotion and behavior. For example, if employees feel they have no control over their work, they will likely become disengaged and may even act out against the company or its employees. This can create severe problems if other employees observe this behavior and start acting out themselves (which can lead to lawsuits). To avoid these situations, ensure that your data-aware software allows for some degree of individual choice at each step so that employees feel empowered by their jobs instead of feeling trapped or controlled by them.

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Software that understands how emotions affect decision-making could help us deal with all the new questions raised by data-aware technologies. One of the most important innovations of the last decade is that we now have more and better data about our customers, employees, products, markets, and so on than ever before. But this abundance of information has also created problems: you need more data to make sense of it. This is where software that understands emotions comes in handy; using this type of software can get a more objective view of what's happening around you and make better decisions based on that information.

Bad decision warnings

Data-aware software can help people understand their emotions by keeping track of their moods and warning them when they are making bad decisions. For example, if you're feeling happy one day and then sad the following, data-aware software can tell you this is out of the ordinary for you. It will then alert you that something in your life might affect your moods negatively, helping you figure out what it is and how to fix it.

The same goes for other emotional responses: If a person always gets angry when he sees red traffic lights but only does so when he drives his car (not by bike), then data-aware software would alert him that his anger may be related to driving in general - not just the lights themselves. This kind of information could prove invaluable in helping him manage his anger more effectively without relying solely on therapy sessions or medication alone, once again proving how vital technology is to handling emotions better.

Emotional Observation

If you think that's far-fetched, consider this: The same software could be used to help people make decisions. It could also help them make better decisions.

Software could give you insight into your emotions and how others see the world around them. That's powerful stuff when it comes to an understanding of how people think and feel about products or services, especially if they're products or services that require some emotional component before purchase—like a car (or a computer!).

The purpose of data-aware software is to help people make decisions instead of just making those decisions for them. Why do you need an app or a program to make your decisions?

The human brain has evolved over millions of years, but technology has evolved in just decades. How we process information and make choices has been studied for several decades. However, there is still so much more that we don't know yet about what happens inside our minds when faced with complex tasks or difficult situations in life. It's because our brains are not equipped to handle the amount and complexity of data we have today.

Data-aware software can help us understand our emotions better so that we can improve them if they aren't helpful, which will allow us more control over how they affect our decision-making processes in the future. It will also let us be more aware of how other people's emotions affect their decision-making processes as well as ours, which could lead to more collaborative solutions overall.

Software can't make decisions for you, it can only help you make them. And it needs to get a better idea of how humans work before it can help us make decisions, but that's changing fast.

It's easy to see how software is changing the way we interact with the world around us: think about how much easier ordering something online is than going into a store and talking with someone; or how much faster your favorite apps update themselves now that they have access to your location data; or even just how many more tasks have been automated by machines thanks to advances in AI and machine learning (ML).

But what about the decision-making process? How should we adjust our approach so that our organizations are working at total capacity? That's in the works!

Conclusion

We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. We've already seen fantastic improvements in how people use and understand data, and we have a lot to look forward to as this technology gets smarter.

Tyrone Showers