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© 2020 Owner/Author. Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. However, they are not always available at the time of need. Some of our personal heroes have passed away leaving only their wisdom through writings and other artifacts. We present Wearable Wisdom, an intelligent, audio-based system for mediating wisdom and advice from mentors and personal heroes to a user. It does so by performing automated semantic analysis on the collected wisdom database and generating a simulated voice of a mentor sharing relevant wisdom and advice with the user. The results show that our platform is statistically superior in delivering relevant, yet abstract wisdom as well as providing more inspiration compared to control. We describe the implementation of the Wearable Wisdom system, report on a user study, and discuss potential applications of wisdom computation for supporting personal growth and motivation.

© 2020 Owner/Author. Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. However, they are not always available at the time of need. Some of our personal heroes have passed away leaving only their wisdom through writings and other artifacts. We present Wearable Wisdom, an intelligent, audio-based system for mediating wisdom and advice from mentors and personal heroes to a user. It does so by performing automated semantic analysis on the collected wisdom database and generating a simulated voice of a mentor sharing relevant wisdom and advice with the user. The results show that our platform is statistically superior in delivering relevant, yet abstract wisdom as well as providing more inspiration compared to control. We describe the implementation of the Wearable Wisdom system, report on a user study, and discuss potential applications of wisdom computation for supporting personal growth and motivation.

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, September, 2020, Cataloged from the official PDF version of thesis., Includes bibliographical references., We explore the vision of closed-loop bio-digital interfaces for human augmentation, where the bio-digital system allows for both sensing and writing biological information to the body. Current-generation wearable devices sense an individual's physiological data such as heart rate, respiration, electrodermal activity, and EEG, but lack in sensing their biological counterparts, which drive the majority of individual's physiological signals. On the other hand, biosensors for detecting biochemical markers are currently limited to one-time use, are non-continuous and don't provide flexibility in choosing which biomarker they sense. We believe that the future for wearable biosensors lies in going beyond specific sensing capabilities and becoming a wearable "lab" on body, where a small device can offer a fully integrated and re-configurable system that mimics several processes usually performed in the laboratory for clinical diagnostics and analysis of human health. To illustrate our vision of having a lab on body, we prototyped "Wearable Lab" a bio-digital platform for sensing biochemical and digital data from saliva. Our platform contains digital sensors such as an IMU for activity recognition, as well as an automated system for continuous sampling of biomarkers from saliva by leveraging existing paper-based biochemical sensors. The platform could aid with longitudinal studies of biomarkers and early diagnosis of diseases. We present example data collected from the device, show a preliminary evaluation, and discuss the limitation of our platform., by Pat Pataranutaporn., S.M., S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Pat Pataranutaporn, Ali Shtarbanov, Glenn Fernandes, Jingwen Li, Parinya Punpongsanon, Joe Paradiso, and Pattie Maes. 2020. Wearable Sanitizer: Design and Implementation of an Open-source, On-body Sanitizer. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Emerging Technologies (SA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3415255.3422897., SA '20: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 [December 4 - 13, 2020 ], During the pandemic, wearables such as face masks and face shields have become broadly adopted, these solutions do reduce infection but do not eliminate infectious agents from surfaces and objects the person may touch. Therefore, regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases ranging from the common cold and flu to SARS and COVID-19. This activity of frequent disinfection requires a high degree of discipline and leads to increased cognitive and physical effort involved in frequent washing of hands or use of a pocket sanitizer. We present an open-source, wearable sanitizer that provides just-in-time, automatic dispensing of alcohol to the wearer's hand or nearby objects using sensors and programmable cues. We systematically explore the design space aiming to create a device that not only seamlessly integrates with the user's body and behavior but also frees their physical and mental faculties for other tasks.

Pat Pataranutaporn, Ali Shtarbanov, Glenn Fernandes, Jingwen Li, Parinya Punpongsanon, Joe Paradiso, and Pattie Maes. 2020. Wearable Sanitizer: Design and Implementation of an Open-source, On-body Sanitizer. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Emerging Technologies (SA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3415255.3422897., SA '20: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 [December 4 - 13, 2020 ], During the pandemic, wearables such as face masks and face shields have become broadly adopted, these solutions do reduce infection but do not eliminate infectious agents from surfaces and objects the person may touch. Therefore, regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases ranging from the common cold and flu to SARS and COVID-19. This activity of frequent disinfection requires a high degree of discipline and leads to increased cognitive and physical effort involved in frequent washing of hands or use of a pocket sanitizer. We present an open-source, wearable sanitizer that provides just-in-time, automatic dispensing of alcohol to the wearer's hand or nearby objects using sensors and programmable cues. We systematically explore the design space aiming to create a device that not only seamlessly integrates with the user's body and behavior but also frees their physical and mental faculties for other tasks.

Pat Pataranutaporn, Ali Shtarbanov, Glenn Fernandes, Jingwen Li, Parinya Punpongsanon, Joe Paradiso, and Pattie Maes. 2020. Wearable Sanitizer: Design and Implementation of an Open-source, On-body Sanitizer. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Emerging Technologies (SA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3415255.3422897., SA '20: SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 [December 4 - 13, 2020 ], During the pandemic, wearables such as face masks and face shields have become broadly adopted, these solutions do reduce infection but do not eliminate infectious agents from surfaces and objects the person may touch. Therefore, regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases ranging from the common cold and flu to SARS and COVID-19. This activity of frequent disinfection requires a high degree of discipline and leads to increased cognitive and physical effort involved in frequent washing of hands or use of a pocket sanitizer. We present an open-source, wearable sanitizer that provides just-in-time, automatic dispensing of alcohol to the wearer's hand or nearby objects using sensors and programmable cues. We systematically explore the design space aiming to create a device that not only seamlessly integrates with the user's body and behavior but also frees their physical and mental faculties for other tasks.