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Would You Let an App Play Matchmaker in Your Love Life?

By M. Christian
January 24, 2017
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App monitors your physical and emotional responses to manage your relationships.

We’ve all been there: a day—or maybe even a week later—we say to ourselves “is so-and-so really that good of a friend?”

Or even “was the sex really that good?”

Enter an app that promises to know us better than we may even know ourselves.

Created by New York-based artists Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, PplKpr (“People Keeper”) connects to a wide variety of Bluetooth-enabled health monitor devices that create an emotional ranking system for the people in the user’s lives.

PplKpr uses both heart rate as well as its location via GPS. So it notices when, say, your pulse jumps, and you suddenly leave an area. Then, when it registers a noticeable change in either or both, it asks a set of basic questions to get a “feel” for what’s going on: where the user is, what’s happening, and who the user is with.

PplKpr “implements a complex metric called ‘heart rate variability’ that uses subtle changes in heart rhythm to determine your emotional state. This data is correlated with the people you interact with to determine who should be auto-scheduled into your life and who should be removed,” reported The Daily Mail.

After getting feedback, and learning who’s who and what’s what, it’s the app then gives a report, recommendations, and even actively unfriends people the user feels anxious around.

While created mainly as an investigative tool and art project, PplKpr nevertheless could be seen as a potential health care tool. It could, for example, be used by those who are unsure of their emotions around both certain individuals as well as activities, with the data being used by individuals or even by therapists.

Self-examination, after all, can be a tricky thing. It’s nice to see developers like McCarthy and McDonald working to create a new way to know ourselves and how we feel about the people in our lives.

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M. Christian

M.Christian loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer he has six novels,12 collections,100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to his name. His non-fiction regularly appears n many sites, but he’s most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of his erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing he can't write about … and brilliantly.”

Reflecting his unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, his stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. His collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of his stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, his fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sextech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—his ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with his friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, he’s lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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