The BodyMedia platform: continuous body intelligence

  • Authors:
  • Astro Teller;John (Ivo) Stivoric

  • Affiliations:
  • BodyMedia, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA;BodyMedia, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the the 1st ACM workshop on Continuous archival and retrieval of personal experiences
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Only by making computing intimate to the body can products begin to know our states of mind, our contexts, our states of health, etc. and respond (or have other aspects of the world respond) in intelligent ways. Sympathetic products, driven by computers worn on the body, are coming and the industry will grow up with wearable body monitoring at its core. BodyMedia, Inc. has been building toward this vision since 1999 and today has a commercially available, clinically tested, consumer-acceptable, environmentally hardened body monitoring platform. This platform is available today or will soon be available in healthcare markets as well as tangential areas including safety, security, entertainment, and affective computing. This brief document will highlight the current state of the platform and some of its on-going evolution.