Do not laugh: the underwear on which the U.S. firm would work a dimension medical and educational.
After glasses, watches and socks for baby, here brassiere connected. Microsoft researchers presented the progress of their work (PDF document, Ed) during a conference on "affective computing".
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| Microsoft brassiere connected |
A discipline that aims lde develop systems and devices with the capacity to recognize, synthesize and model human emotions, says Mashable website on 4 December 2013. This smart brassiere is
supposed to monitor different physical parameters of the user with sensors, to determine his mood. The latter are able to collect heart rate, the conductivity of the skin, well as its movements.
These data are then bred with information provided in advance about when the person behavior has had overnutrition due to stress. when a critical threshold is reached, the undergarment sends a
signal to the smartphone user to report the risk of over-feeding. (It is mostly women who suffer from emotional bulimia and a brassiere is a good way to measure their heart rate,) says Mary Czerwinski, research director at Microsoft to Discovery News.
If the tests showed that the brassiere provided 75% of the states of stress, there is still a crucial area for improvement: women participating in the study were indeed remove and reload the brassiere every three to four hours.
Researchers have also attempted to create a similar system in a men's underwear, but this dress is too far from the heart to measure the pace and provide reliable information. «The next challenge,
they write in the report of experimentation, is to create a comfortable system, whose battery will last longer and will be used by both women and men. »
Remains whether receiving a message alert on a smartphone actually prevent a stressed person to throw on a chocolate bar!
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