From Icons to Insights: A Privacy-First Method for Translating Home-Screen Layout into Practical Habit Recommendations

Bernard F Pettingill, Jay D Lee.

Abstract

Smart phones and iPads are here to stay. Mindscreen (Mindscreen.AI) is a privately owned system that analyzes home screenshots, which are used to generate a standard report outlining an individual’s digital habits, decision styles, and interests. The program relies on images supplied by the user and uploaded to the website. From there, a comprehensive report analyzing digital habits and decision styles results. The program removes metadata; it redacts obvious personal identifiers and extracts visual layout features using OCR tuned vision. It then produces a practical “next best move” analysis.

Smart phones and pads all use a ‘design architecture’ of choice. Mindscreen.com intends to show objective workflows, familiarities, and illustrative vignettes, which are peculiar to each individual or group of similarly situated individuals. For example, this program was recently beta tested on a group of Phd Economists in a conference in Tampa, Florida. The results were remarkable.