New Physiological Monitoring
I would love to work on two aspects of physiological monitoring:
- EDA sensing is usually done at one frequency with two electrodes on the inner wrist. It turns out there are a lot of problems with electrode contact and movement; it's also been shown that people have completely different EDA responses on various parts of the body, including on the other wrist. I'd like to do two things (1) study core principles; test a full array of electrodes, some small some large, at a variety of frequencies, and (2) build a mechanically active electrode that can measure it's contact pressure/angle and move, correcting poor contact and/or modifying contact to get a new kind of measurement.
- Pupilometry is really powerful-- it's done at hospitals and in labs to show various things about cognitive function. To succeed, we typically look at pupil movements under tightly controlled lighting conditions, or eliminate all light and look at a single response to a light source. I'd like to build a pair of glasses that senses the incoming light from dynamic, natural lighting conditions, infers the influence that will have on the pupil, and backs out interesting insights from pupil behavior even in these challenging and constantly changing real-world scenario. This is a challenging modeling problem, but should we tackle it, it could have incredible impact.