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EDA Biofeedback Formal Explorations


Partly completed as part of the master’s thesis for dual master in Computer Science (HCI) and Integrated Design and Management at MIT, and during a research residency at SPACE10
Advisors: Arvind Satyanarayan, Rosalind Picard
Photos by Nikolaj Rohde Simonsen




EDA self-interface is a real-time biofeedback device that connects a wearable EDA sensor to a real-time haptic biofeedback device. This series of formal explorations examine the epistemic power of physiological biofeedback devices and the entanglement of this power with design. 




Haptic wearable biofeedback
device assembly diagram.

(a) assembled unit
(b) adhesive structure
(c) actuator housing
(d) Linear Resonant Actuators
(e) silicone casing Casting and Assembly:


Step 1: 
Inserts are placed and adhered to the acrylic sheet.


Step 2:
Part A of the silicone is mixed with the silicone dye. Then Part A is mixed with Part B.


Step 3:
Silicone is poured into the mold. Then the acrylic sheet with the inserts are inserted into the silicone.


Step 4:
The part is removed from the mold. The negative inserts are removed. Other inserts such as the adhesive structure wings remain inside the silicone part.


Step 5:
The actuators are encased in the housing (pictured in blue). Then the assembled actuators and housing are inserted into the silicone (in place of inserts that were removed).


Step 6:
Final prototypes

molds and inserts for casting silicone



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