Research Topic

The topic for the research project, coming from the project database, is:

As part of an emerging collaboration with colleagues in AI/Robotics, this project will explore biosensor data and how people respond to this data being made available in social settings. The project will investigate existing research in this area, and develop prototype systems which gather biosensor data and make it available to humans in order to investigate how the data (about oneself or others) might influence social interactions.

At our initial meeting, we discussed what the project might entail.

The thoughts, at this stage, centre around the creation of a thing or device that participates in meetings. It sits almost as a participant in the meeting, occupying a place the same as a human participant would.

In addition to recording the meeting, it detects biosensor data from human participants and represents that data back to the human participant. What the device detects and how that data/information is presented are questions that form part of this investigation.

Critical, is the timing of when that data or information is presented to the participant. Again, this is part of the investigation.

From here, I need to do some background research covering: the importance of timing in presenting the data/information to the person, what is the ‘right’ timeframe, what can be detected via sensors within that timeframe, how should the data/information be presented to the human participant, how can the device be built (what hardware is available), what form should the device take, and what will we aim to achieve as part of this project.

There’s more, but this is the starting point and the focus for at least the next week.