From: Rob Kall (smile_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 2001-07-17 05:34:37
EEG, EMG, ECG, and even GSR could use the same cable set-up, just
processing the signal differently.
THermal requires a thermistor sensor and photplethysmograph a different,
optical sensor. Keeping the cost down mnight mean using only one modality
at a time. That will still give a lot of power for users.
There is a thermal unit available on the web for about $100 retail. I have
begun contact with the manufacturer. I know they are interested in
supporting new softwraer wapps for their hardware, so it might be easily
possible to modify the EEG software to work with the thermal sensor. Or,
it may be good to find a decent thermistor that can be added to the EEG
interface.
Lastly, I spent some serious money working on developing a general purpose
biofeedback program working in WIndows back in the early Nineties, with
Vlad Tokarev, (Bionetica) who is in the US because of a work visa I
originally arranged for him.
The project ended up being more than Futurehealth could afford. But we did
get some functions working, -- signal acquisiton and display for the I-330
and we were working on the procomp.
The software was pretty ambitious, aimed at being a protocol creator for
all kinds of signal acquisition combined with sequenced, multimedia
integration. I might be able to dig up some of the code and certainly
screens and layout, user interface, etc.
It would be nice to see all that effort put to some good use. I'd be
interested in exploring possibilities with anyone interested out there--
either for this project or some other one.
Rob Kall
Futurehealth, Inc.
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