3 months later...
Published by Amruth on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 10:50 AMI remember saying that it all started with a crazy idea... and 3 months later, this is where the idea stood -
We were working on developing a software to create a virtual personality of the user so that the same can be loaded to a different environment to predict the user's reaction to the situations. This would have a lot of applications in various fields which require HR assessment and development... (Yea, I'm being hopelessly modest - it's just one small target customer base).
The problem however, was to work out a model which would allow us to arrive at such an accurate model of the user's personality since most of predictive psychological theories are accurate only on large population groups.
We were basing our model more on evolutionary biology & game theory, with psychology to estimate certain aspects of the model rather than using it as a starting point. We were working with help from a few scientists in evolutionary biology & psychology from IISc, NIMHANS, NBRC & Oxford regarding the same.
We had completed an initial model for an individual's personality and were looking forward to getting out a design document for the software so that we can atleast pitch the idea to a professional AI programmer. But the big question that we asked ourselves a zillion times was - "How can we get the best team for the project?!"
We were working on developing a software to create a virtual personality of the user so that the same can be loaded to a different environment to predict the user's reaction to the situations. This would have a lot of applications in various fields which require HR assessment and development... (Yea, I'm being hopelessly modest - it's just one small target customer base).
The problem however, was to work out a model which would allow us to arrive at such an accurate model of the user's personality since most of predictive psychological theories are accurate only on large population groups.
We were basing our model more on evolutionary biology & game theory, with psychology to estimate certain aspects of the model rather than using it as a starting point. We were working with help from a few scientists in evolutionary biology & psychology from IISc, NIMHANS, NBRC & Oxford regarding the same.
We had completed an initial model for an individual's personality and were looking forward to getting out a design document for the software so that we can atleast pitch the idea to a professional AI programmer. But the big question that we asked ourselves a zillion times was - "How can we get the best team for the project?!"