Play a Game to Know if Your Spouse is Cheating

Sega Corporation recently developed the game “Heart Scan”, which operates similarly to a lie detector test and is playable in Nintendo DS gaming units. The company describes their new game as one that could reveal if an individual is “rattled” when words like marriage, divorce, living together, extramarital affair, and rendezvous are mentioned.

Heart Scan can analyze human voices and produce charts, drawings, figures, and text relating to the results of scans. It can also be used to analyze the psyche of manga or animation characters as well as news reporters on TV. It can show if a person is angry, disappointed, cheerful, nervous, or calm.

All these are made possible by the sensibility technology created by SGI Japan and Advanced Generation Interface Japan Inc. The latter company apparently uses Heart Scan to determine the moods of employees answering phone calls and those who were lodging complaints. Different tone patterns with their respective emotional labels of voice samples were used to properly analyze the subject’s present mood. These patterns were called “parameters”. Parameters considered by the technology did not, however, consider the volume of voice samples being studied.

Yasushi Nagumo, a spokesman for Sega, encourages individuals to try using it to analyze people in the workplace, interview possibly dishonest individuals, and examine the sincerity of lovers as a way of gauging its effectiveness. Nagumo also advises users to avoid prematurely judging their partners just because they sound “nervous”.

Heart Scan was officially launched in the marketplace last August 16, 2007, but there is still no word from Sega about its possible international release. As of now, only people in Japan will be able to take advantage of the one-push-button offer of Heart Scan for immediate detection of possible infidelity.

Marital partners concerned about infidelity issues can certainly try using Heart Scan to determine if their spouses are truly faithful. And those who aren’t concerned should be, especially women. Statistics show that fifty to seventy percent of husbands are unfaithful to their wives at one point or another. Studies also reveal that most of extramarital affairs of husbands occur during the summer.

Virtual infidelity may also be a cause of concern. A Wall Street journal detailed how a woman may have certain need to worry when her husband spends 8 hours a day with his wife in Second Life, a virtual reality game. He becomes so addicted to it that he ends up ignoring his real wife in a number of incidents.