I just watched a TEDMED talk about the iBrain device via this link on the excellent Medgadget resource. The iBrain is a single-channel EEG recording collected via ‘dry’ electrodes where the data is stored in a conventional handheld device such as a cellphone. In my opinion, the clever part of this technology is the application [...]
Also tagged body blogs, eeg, wirelessIn my last post I articulated a concern about how the name adopted by this field may drive the research in one direction or another. I’ve adopted the Physiological Computing (PC) label because it covers the widest range of possible systems. Whilst the PC label is broad, generic and probably vague, it does cover a [...]
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I’ve just returned from a summer school on pervasive adaptation organised under the PERADA project. As preparation for my talk, I was asked to identify some future applications for physiological computing. I drew from an idea first articulated by Ros Picard that exposure to quantifiable, objective feedback about emotional states could serve an educational purpose [...]
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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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