Stress Sensors Are Part of Context in Microsoft Patent
A user’s context normally includes their surroundings, their activities, such as direction of travel, and the objects and people in their proximity. According to analyses of a patent recently awarded to Microsoft and published on the DailyMail web site, Microsoft seeks to include stress level detection as part of the user context as well. Although the analysis in this feature article is focusing on the stress of a person with concerns about their interior decorating skills, the detection of user stress can be very valuable in professional use cases. Presumably the user’s level of stress can be detected in many ways. One of those is using EEG technology which DAQRI, maker of the Smart Helmet, has acquired earlier this year when it purchased Melon, a company providing EEG technology in a headband.