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Biofeedback is the process of becoming aware of various physiological functions using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.Processes that can be controlled include brainwaves, muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain perception.

Biofeedback

What I’m interested in

• Electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. This type gives you information about your body’s muscle tension so that you can practice relaxation.

• Temperature (thermal) biofeedback. Sensors attached to your fingers or feet measure your skin temperature. Because your temperature often drops when you’re under stress, a low reading can prompt you to begin relaxation techniques.

• Galvanic skin response training. Sensors measure the activity of your sweat glands and the amount of perspiration on your skin, alerting you to anxiety.

• Heart rate variability biofeedback. This type of biofeedback, commonly used in commercial devices, helps you control your heart rate in an effort to improve blood pressure, lung function, and stress and anxiety.

Types of Biofeedback

Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per unit of time, typically expressed as beats per minute (bpm). Heart rate can vary as the body’s need to absorb oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide changes, such as during exercise or sleep.

Assist in the diagnosis and tracking of medical conditions. It is also used by individuals, such as athletes, who are interested in monitoring their heart rate to gain maximum efficiency from their training.

Heart Rate Area of Focus

• Carotid pulse: located in the neck (carotid artery). The carotid artery should be palpated gently and while the patient is sitting or lying down.

• Facial pulse: located on the mandible (lower jawbone) on a line with the corners of the mouth (facial artery).

• Temporal pulse: located on the temple directly in front of the ear (superficial temporal artery).

Head/neck

Precedents

Lie detection is the practice of determining whether someone is lying. Lie detection commonly involves the polygraph. Voice stress analysis may also be commonly used because it can be applied covertly to monitor voice record-ings. The polygraph detects changes in body functions not easily controlled by the conscious mind. These include bodily reactions like skin conductivity and heart rate.

Precedents

A human network of feeling emotions physically. A devices that intercon-nected by communications channels that facilitate communications and allows sharing of emotion and bio information among interconnected humans.

What am I Making?

A user will have a collar attached to neck with a heart rate sensor that keeps track of there bpm. The wearer has a wireless bracelet that transmits his or her biofeedback to another wearing the same device. Both wearers when near each other will be able to feel one anothers heart rate.

How does it work?

Wrist band transmit heart rate

Neck strap with heart rate sensor

Motor that pulsates with other wearers bpm

To bring the human experience closer to a a collective experience to share motivates by at least one common issue or feeling to achieve a common objective or thought. Also to make the human experience tangible and to escape the feeling of being alone.

Goal

thanks

• Collective http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective

• Computer Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network

• Biofeed Back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback

• Pulse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse

• Lie Detection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detection

• Emotion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion

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