This is very cool…

CALL FROM SYSTEM: CHILL ! (INNOVATION GONE MAD)Two Intel researchers, Margaret Morris and Farzin Guilak, are developing “mobile therapy” – a system of just-in-time personal coaching, by the system, that is triggered by physiological indicators of stress. Mobile Heart Health, as it’s called, uses body sensors to help people “tune in to early signs of stress, and modulate reactivity that could potentially damage their relationships”. Breathing visualizations and “cognitive reappraisal cues” appear on your cell phone when a wireless ECG detects deviations from your baseline heart rate. The only flaw I can see in this project is that my heart will literally explode the first time that a cellphone tells me to calm down.

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