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7th September 2010

Mobile Monitors and Apps for Physiological Computing

I always harbored two assumptions about the development of physiological computing systems that have only become apparent (to me at least) as technological innovation seems to contradict them.  First of all, I thought nascent forms of physiological computing systems would be developed for desktop system where the user stays in a stationary and more-or-less sedentary [...]

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31st July 2009

Audience Participation

A paper just published in IJHCS by Stevens et al (link to abstract) describes how members of the audience use a PDA to register their emotional responses in real-time during a number of dance performances.    It’s an interesting approach to studying how emotional responses may converge and diverge during particular sections of a performance.  The [...]

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23rd April 2009

Physiological Computing F.A.Q.

1.  What is physiological computing? Physiological Computing is a multidisciplinary field of research involving contributions from psychology, neuroscience, engineering, & computer science.  A physiological computing system takes psychophysiological information from the user, such as heart rate or brain activity, and uses these data to make the software respond to the user in real-time.  For example, [...]

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17th April 2009

Mobile Heart Health

There’s a short summary of a project called ‘Mobile Heart Health’ in the latest issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing (April-June 2009).  The project was conducted at Intel Labs and uses an ambulatory ECG sensor to connect to a mobile telephone.  The ECG monitors heart rate variability; if high stress is detected, the user is prompted [...]

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1st April 2009

The European Future Technologies Conference

The European Future Tech conference has the catchy title “Science Beyond Fiction” and is organised by the Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) division of the European Commission.  I’m involved in the REFLECT project and we’re doing a conference session about our work on 22nd April.

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1st April 2009

Adaptive & Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems’09

The PERADA project has asked me to talk about Biocybernetic Adaptation as part of a half-day Pervasive Computing workshop at the AISB conference in Edinburgh

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