When it comes to wearing sensors we
need to balance actually accurately measuring useful things
with not annoying sensitive people. There are two types of
sensors - we'd like students during class to wearing a device
that measures heartbeat, body temperature, respiration and
blood pressure. If we can obtain brain wave (encephalography)
data and blood sugar unobstrusively that would be great. The
purpose of this
set of sensors is to try and keep students safe from seizures,
tachycardia, overheating and so on.
The second set of
sensors will likely include about thirty separate devices to
measure the position over time of the wrists, elbows,
shoulders, head, angle of the abdomen, hip, knees, feet and
ankles. In addition, because there are a variety of hand
configurations in Tai Chi Chuan, it seems likely that students
will be asked to wear something like gloves. We would not mind
if students choose to keep the first group of sensors active
outside of class. That would almost certainly require adding
something like GPS location telemetry. What we want to do with
the information from the second group is use software to
compare the movements of students to the movements of a
grandmaster and provide digital movement-level grades. |
