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Wearable wireless physiological sensors

Advisors: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Di Wu

Project Description:

The objective of this project is to develop a small computing and communications platform to enable physiological sensors (e.g., galvanic skin conductance, blood volume pressure) to be worn and interfaced without the need to be tethered to an instrument. The platform should be able to interface a physiological sensor, acquire data, perform, minimal processing, and communicate with a base station (e.g., a PC or a PDA). The project receives its inspiration from Rosalind Picard's research on Affective Computing.

Educational Objectives:

  1. Embedded systems, wearable computing, sensor interfacing
  2. Human-computer interaction: physiological signals, affective computing
  3. Wireless communications

Deliverables:

  1. Wearable microcomputer capable of interfacing physiological sensors and wireless communications
  2. Graphical user interface for real-time display of physiological signals
  3. Project documentation and live demonstration, as described in the course syllabus