1. technical presentation barbara compagnoni | fall 2014
brain waves
technical presentation
barbara compagnoni | fall 2014

2. activity and fitness trackers

3. BASICS HEALTH TRACKER RESEARCH
Peak uses Basis' habit system to help you make small but powerful changes to your sleep or activity patterns.
Peak automatically adjusts weekly goals based on your performance.
Habit notifications when you’re on track or need a nudge.
Habits for Improving your sleep
Being more active
Burning more calories
Sensors Include:
Optical Heart Rate Sensor
Galvanic Skin Response
Skin Temperature
3-Axis Accelerometer
Other Features include:
Up to 4 day battery life
Wireless Connectivity over Bluetooth Smart™
iOS or Android required

4. SAMSUNG GEAR FIT & GEAR 2 RESEARCH
Samsung Gear 2 provides personalized real-time information on the progress and results of your workout by deploying the device’s optical heart rate sensor. Personalized and adaptive next workout recommendation will help you to exercise according to your individual needs.
Sensors include:
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Heart Rate Sensor
Only compatible with certain samsung devices and some Health-related apps are not compatible with tablets and so on.

5. RESEARCH
APPLE iWATCH
The wrist is a convenient area for collecting data about your physical activity, a task Apple Watch is designed to perform throughout the day. On the back of the case, a ceramic cover with sapphire lenses1 protects a specially designed sensor that uses infrared and visible-light LEDs and photodiodes to detect your heart rate. Apple Watch uses this sensor, along with an accelerometer and the GPS and Wi‑Fi in your iPhone, to measure all kinds of physical movement, from simply standing up to actively working out.
Sensors include:
Accelerometer
GPS
Heart Rate Sensor
Not available until early 2015.

6. FIT BIT FLEX, ONE & ZIP RESEARCH Sensors include: Accelerometer
Pedometer

7. RESEARCH
JAWBONE UP & UP24
Sensors include:
Accelerometer
Pedometer

8. RESEARCH
POLAR

9. OVERALL COMPARISON
Fitness Trackers

10. consumer-based EEGs

11. EMOTIV EPOC & EPOC+ RESEARCH Features include: 14 channels
connects to PCs, tablets and smartphones via proprietary, 2.4GHz wireless. Dongle is USB compatible and requires no custom drivers.
lithium battery which provides 12 hours of continuous use.
APIs and detection libraries: Emotional States, Mental Commands & Facial Expressions
connects wirelessly to PCs running Windows, Linux, MAC OSX, Android or iOS.
Pre-Orders begin to ship October 2014
Saline wet sensors

12. EMOTIV EPOC & EPOC+ RESEARCH Features include: 5-channel
designed for everyday use
API and drivers for application development using the Emotive detection suites and motion sensors, as well as tools for EEG research application utilizing raw EEG data.
4.0 BLE Bluetooth Wireless connection
proprietary polymer sensor that offers great electrical conductivity with the convenience of a dry sensor
compatible with Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows Platforms.
Will not be released until Early 2015.

13. NEUROSKY MINDWAVE & MOBILE
RESEARCH
NEUROSKY MINDWAVE & MOBILE
Features include:
Direct connect to dry electrode
One EEG channel
RAW EEG Signal
Attention
Meditation
Eye Blink
Delta, Theta, low apha, high alpha, low beta, high beta and gamma waves
512Hz sampling rate
3-100Hz frequency range
Already acquired for another project.

14. OPEN BCI RESEARCH OpenBCI 8 and 32 - bit Board:
8 differential, high gain, low noise input channels
Compatible with active and passive electrodes.
ATmega328P microcontroller w/ Arduino UNO™ bootloader (16MHz)/PIC32MX250F128B microcontroller w/chipKIT™ bootloader (50MHz)
RFduino™ Low Power Bluetooth™ radio
24-bit channel data resolution
Programmable gain: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
5V and 3.3V digital operating voltage
+/-2.5V analog operating voltage
6-14V input voltage
LIS3DH accelerometer
Micro SD card slot
6 GPIO or Analog pins + 2 Analog only pins (8 total)
Beginning to ship this month.
Ships with wet sensors.

15. MINDFLEX HACK RESEARCH
Hack already complete for inexpensive prototyping purposes.

16. OVERALL COMPARISON
Consumer Based EEGs

17. device research

18. OVERALL COMPARISON
Devices

19. application precedents

20. NeuroCoach PRECEDENTS
Brain fitness trainer that uses hypnosis, brainwaves and attention training.

21. NeuroSky Recorder PRECEDENTS
Records brain waves and posts to a dropbox.

22. PRECEDENTS
MyndPlayer
Brain entertainment and training

23. PRECEDENTS
Flappy Brain
Brain entertainment and training