Collab-Or-Ate

There’s a new concept device out called the “Moody Sensiblog,” which the creaters at Yanko Design describe as a “biological twitter.” Much like twitter, it broadcasts what you are doing to your friends, but instead of sending text messages, this device automatically broadcasts your motion (from an accelerometer), sounds (from a microphone), and your galvanic skin response (your palm sweat detected from electrodes). Would you consider wearing this? Yea, me neither!

But it it similar to a project I worked on with Andrew Fiore and Vidya Lakshmipathy in 2002. Conductive Chat was an instant messaging interface that automatically changed the size and color of your typed text to reflect your level of excitement, becoming bigger as your galvanic skin response increased and turning red when you were at elevated levels.

I found out about this via Mobile Messaging 2.0.