Online share traders with a tendency to get over-excited now have help at hand.
Philips and ABN AMRO have hooked up to produce the Rationalizer system, which uses the EmoBracelet and EmoBowl to measure emotional responses and underline when traders get a bit too swept up in their job.
The bracelet, says Philips, measures the arousal component of user's emotion through a skin sensor.
This arousal level is then rendered as a light pattern on the bracelet or the bowl.
The higher the arousal level, the more intense the dynamic light pattern becomes: the number of elements increases, the speed increases and the colour shifts from a soft yellow, via orange, to a deep red.
Philips says the technology doesn't require difficult setup and features an easy user interface.
"In our talks with the people working on the ABN AMRO Dialogues Incubator, we were challenged to apply our competences to another domain, the domain of online trading for home investors," said Geert Christiaansen of Philips design.
"In this joint project we started to tackle this challenge. It proved to be both enjoyable and rewarding, leading to this thought-provoking result."
- NZ HERALD STAFF
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