Are you alive?

sensor data as a resource for social interaction

Esko Kurvinen

Mia Lähteenmäki

Antti Salovaara

Fabiola Lopez

pp. 39-49

in: Knowledge, Technology & Policy 20 (1), 2007.

Abstract

This paper presents findings from the field test of a prototype device that collects heart rate sensor data and displays it for users. The prototype was tested on a football team, including teenage players, their parents and coaches. The findings include notes on user expectations related to the technology and detailed analyses of the social interactions that took place during the test. The paper concludes with design implications relating to this application, but also poses challenges for context-aware computing and machine intelligence in general.