Overview
Emothesia puts a patient’s body signals in front of a physician as they happen. Two sensors read the patient, a phone collects and forwards everything, and a Magic Leap 2 headset draws it into the physician’s field of view.
It was built for physicians from the start, and shaped through interviews and user tests with 50 of them.
System
Watch + phone
Sensors
Heart rate
ECG
Record one on the watch
Sending HR, HRV, EDA, Temp
- Watch
- Record ECG takes a real 30-second recording, drawing the strip as it goes, then sends it to the phone.
- Phone
- Tap the EmotiBit to disconnect it, and EDA and temperature drop out of every screen.
- Stream
- Choose which signals reach the physician’s headset, or pause the stream.
In the headset
Prototype Demo
Findings
Implicit feedback beat explicit: world-dimming on each heartbeat created a stronger sense of embodied connection than the icon dashboard, an immersion through diminishment. We recommend hybrid systems integrating both.
Headsets remain a barrier to the very connection they augment: obscuring the eyes interferes with the microexpressions interpersonal communication depends on. And biosignal interpretation raises philosophical problems: classifying emotion into discrete categories is imperfect and culturally contingent, while our emotional experience is fundamentally continuous.