Class Concept: Wearable Computers

Product Prospectus:

Affective Computer - AC Mission Statement

Technologies:

• Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) Sensor
• Blood Volume Pulse Sensor
• Respiration Sensor
• Electromyogram (EMG) Sensor

Uses:

Augmented Memory

Augmented Reality

Implications:

Socrates to Phaedrus: If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

Misc.

the MIT Group demonstration