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| 15-10-2008
[UgensErhverv.dk: Redaktionen]
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| 'Body area' netværk afslører følelser
IMEC har demonstreret et 'body area' netværk, der kan måle en række legemesparametre og på det grundlag bestemme personens følelsestilstand (in english).
| In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC has developed an ambulatory arousal monitor. The new research concept uses a combination of body parameters to monitor a person’s arousal level. The compact form factor and the long battery lifetime allow the use of the arousal monitor in new application domains such as mobile gaming and clinical trials.
Being able to measure and analyze the emotional state can be of great value for a variety of applications in the entertainment and medical sector. For example, online avatars can automatically adapt to a player’s state of mind without him having to actively indicate it in a game menu. Or, in drugs screening, being able to objectively quantify parameters such as stress can complement the more subjective indication and gradation of traditional tests.
IMEC’s approach within its Human++ program at Holst Centre uses a body-area network that measures four body parameters to detect a person’s emotional state. The body-area network consists of two small wireless sensor nodes that communicate to a PC acting as a base station.
The wireless sensor nodes take care of ultra-low power digital signal processing and wireless communication of the measured data. The first wireless sensor node is integrated in a chest belt and measures respiration and ECG (electrocardiogram or heart activity) based on IMEC’s proprietary single-channel biopotential ASIC.
The second node is integrated in a wristband and consists of a commercial sensor for skin temperature and a dedicated circuit board measuring the galvanic skin conductance between two fingers. The physiological measurements are combined and interpreted in the software running on the base station where an indication about the person’s arousal is derived in real time.
The entire system consumes twenty times less power than a comparable Bluetooth device, allowing several days of autonomy on a commercial prismatic Li-Ion battery. Future research will focus on making the system fully autonomous, e.g. by using energy harvesters that produce electricity from body-heat; increasing the amount of local computing done within the sensor nodes; increasing the amount of parameters that can be measured; improving the robustness and reliability and including ultra-low power wireless RF communication.
IMEC’s platform serves as a research demonstrator to showcase and evaluate the underlying technology and building blocks. Partner companies – and possible other interested parties – can use and commercialize the technology in future product generations, which can be situated in all sorts of other scenarios and domains than the ones named above. |
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