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Manchester City is making a smart scarf
This week premier league champions Manchester City proudly reported that they are using connected scarves to gather data on supporters’ emotions during matches. The scarf relies on an EmotiBit, which is a device with a PPG sensor, accelerometer, temperature sensor, and electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor. The sensors are similar to those in your... See more
Pamela Pavliscak • Ghost in the machine
Sports teams (and fans) love data and emotions are at the heart of sports, which means that experimentation could result in meaningful experiences. Or as the club contends, “serve as a study in shared passion.”
Pamela Pavliscak • Ghost in the machine
Today, public accountability is an aspirational experience.
Fueled by the loneliness epidemic, growing health-consciousness, and an expanding definition of what it means to be “well” (or “unwell”), data tracking apps with social functions are gaining ground as communicative spaces, representing an alternative for many... See more
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