Conference BioFeedback
Conference BioFeedback is a relational technology. It allows to connect conference presenters to their audience, sharing the emotional scenario produced through words, presentations and on-stage presence and performance.
Conferences can be really boring. But they can also be enlightening. Most of the time lecturers don't have explicit access to the feelings and emotions of their audience. They rather try to interpret how the people watching their presentations feel, guessing interest, excitement, or pure boredom from sitting postures, gestures, yawning and the like. And most of the time people from the audience just cannot express wether they are enjoying the presentation or not, if they're feeling involved or forgot.
Technologies can be leveraged to turn this scenario upside down, transforming conferences into a true multidirectional dialogue.
Conference BioFeedback establishes a connection between conference lecturers and their audience. By wearing a USB device conference presenters can open up their bodies to the feedbacks from the audience.
By using the interface similar to the one on the right lecturers can allow users to express their feelings. These are turned into electrical stimuli that are routed directly to the body of the lecturer.
When people from the audience are unhappy the lecturer will feel it under the form of low voltage stimulations on his body, and the audience will be alerted that he got the message as a triggered alarm sound will fire off.
Now feelings are explicit, and the lecturer will be able to take appropriate action, by showing that exceptional video or that impressive slide, or bringing the lecture to a quick end: now the right time to do it!
Conferences can be really boring. But they can also be enlightening. Most of the time lecturers don't have explicit access to the feelings and emotions of their audience. They rather try to interpret how the people watching their presentations feel, guessing interest, excitement, or pure boredom from sitting postures, gestures, yawning and the like. And most of the time people from the audience just cannot express wether they are enjoying the presentation or not, if they're feeling involved or forgot.
Technologies can be leveraged to turn this scenario upside down, transforming conferences into a true multidirectional dialogue.
Conference BioFeedback establishes a connection between conference lecturers and their audience. By wearing a USB device conference presenters can open up their bodies to the feedbacks from the audience.
By using the interface similar to the one on the right lecturers can allow users to express their feelings. These are turned into electrical stimuli that are routed directly to the body of the lecturer.
When people from the audience are unhappy the lecturer will feel it under the form of low voltage stimulations on his body, and the audience will be alerted that he got the message as a triggered alarm sound will fire off.
Now feelings are explicit, and the lecturer will be able to take appropriate action, by showing that exceptional video or that impressive slide, or bringing the lecture to a quick end: now the right time to do it!
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This Conference BioFeedback interface is connected to the device used in occasion of the Consciousness Reframed X conference organized by the Planetary Collegium in November 2009 at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich.
You can use the Conference BioFeedback, too!
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You can use the Conference BioFeedback, too!
For info write to info@fakepress.net. [FakePress Publishing]