pplkpr is an app that analyze, mange and optimize your social life. It was created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
pplkpr was created to explore the implications of quantified living for relationships. Part provocation and in part a speculation, pplkpr is also a fully functional app that poses questions of data ownership between two people, and if algorithms could understand our relationships and make better interpersonal decisions than we can ourselves?
Pplkpr can create and open a text message, delete someone from your contacts, and poke people on Facebook. It started with over a year of research and experimentation, and eventually took the form of an iOS app ready for short term daily-life performances.
You may manually enter information into pplkpr at any moment, but it also produces two kinds of automated notifications requesting information: one for when you are coming and going, and one for when you feel something.
