Thursday June 16th
ngram analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
and markov chain
Litterary python for begginers http://algolit.constantvzw.org/index.php/Python_for_beginners
Algolit pads about
DNA analysis and text: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/playing_with_style_and_freeling
Writing with film http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/writing_with_film
Wednesday June 15th
Two speculative ways of using the data from eeg.
script to process eeg data as patterns in a dictionary
*- a poem is split up by line and used as the keys to a dictionary. the values begin blank.
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*- the emotiv records the subject for 5 minutes and appends the readings to the dictionary as values.
**- After the 5 minutes, if the subject repeats a reading similar to any of the values in the dictionary, the key is shown.
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*- rather than processing the data as 5 digit numbers form. it could be sorted and assigned a signifier. so rather than 90000, 80000, 60000, 30000 we use 4,3,2,1.
*- this would allow to mean the script is checking for patterns, rather than exact readings.
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Script to use the readings from the emotiv as functions.
*- Once again the text is made into a dictionary, with each value being a line.
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*- readings from the emotiv are given functions to apply to the dictionary, which reorder and manipulate it. For example; reordering words or paragraphs; removing lines or words;
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*- each time a manipulation is made to the dictionary, it is reprinted.
Tuesday June 7th
Ben found out the names of the different channels in the emokit code
its called 10-20 method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-20_system_%28EEG%29
here is a map:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2014/365101/fig4/
It Would be good to make a test protocol, maybe even before effective testing
How to do that
*step 1 find out the correspondance of the different nodes and electrodes
*step2 define wich one we want to use and how to assemble them
*step3 define if we use a treshold or a more complex algorythm and if a treshold, which treshold.
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python libraries
pyusb?
Working plan
split packets
return or print packet.
if statement using packet
Splitting packets
use the packet function like the example.py does, but specify the node eg 'F3'.
from emokit import emotiv
import gevent
if __name__ == "__main__":
headset = emotiv.Emotiv()
gevent.spawn(headset.setup)
gevent.sleep(1)
try:
while True:
packet = headset.dequeue()
print packet.gyroX, packet.gyroY, packet.F3
gevent.sleep(0)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
headset.close()
finally:
headset.close()
nodes:
AF3
F7
F3
FC5
T7
P7
O1
O2
P8
T8
FC6
F4
F8
AF4
Translate the keys into a library
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Saturday 28 may 2016
EEG - http://openbci.com/
Artists we discussed Criticallygeoff guess
*Rain Room
*Oliver Julian - wifi grenade
*Bekket - quad
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Poetry
*Burroughs
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Emotiv
*Tan le
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Language
*https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Working with poetry
*we take a reading with the emotiv from a person reading/ listening to poetry
*we do this for each stansa of a poem
*we then create an index of readings for a poem by stansa
*Which we apply back to a second subject listening to the poem
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This is a pad summarizing different brain stroms and research on practices and usages of biosensing devices
First encounter @ F-Lat on saturday may 21st 2016 with Ben Burtenshaw and Sarah Demoen François Zajega Pieter Heremans and Natacha Roussel that took place instead of the workshop that was planned where Valery Vermeulen should have tought us algorythmic bio sensing.
We had several discussions around the emotional practices in computing what is biosensing and other issues related to quantification language symbolism Lacanian and Jungian psychology programming language. .................;(notes to be reported here)....................;
Notes from 21/05/16
http://emotiv.com/
Artist (name?) that used an eeg whilsts walking. He spoke about 'taking freedom'. He captures the 'mythology of the brain'. But in actuallity the muscle movement would create a lot of noise/ inteferance.
Exchanging affect
*Melannie gilligan
*http://thecommonsense.org/
*Chameleon - prototype b (exhibition) - brighton
Language
*Katherine Hayles my mtoher was a computer
eeg
sampled lost/ lossey
the data is always intepreted digitally, therefore some on the brains continual nature will invariably get lost.
We decided to meet again the week after for more concrete results.
On the afternoon I went to borrow Jacques Urbanska's emotiv device
he did a full report of his experience here:
http://www.arts-numeriques.info/emotiv-epoc/
Sam Neurohack suggested to use emokit :
https://github.com/openyou/emokit
I'm trying to get sam to come to bxl....
Research
EEG device pojects
*http://openbci.com/
*http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/
*http://www.brainmaster.com/ An early project
*http://www.frontiernerds.com/brain-hack A very primitive but cheap version of emotiv using a t
Software (list taken from the open eeg site)
*http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~peortega/abi/ A setup and callibration interface.
*http://www.bioera.net/index.shtml an advanced analysis tool
*http://uazu.net/bwview/ Visualiser
*http://www.realization.org/page/topics/electric_guru.htm Feedback display
*http://www.cyberevolution.com/
*http://openvibe.inria.fr/ Has a stack for Emotiv but problem only the raw data version (more expensive) the one I have sends an encrypted signal. I read there is a hack will get more info
*https://github.com/qdot/emokit
*https://github.com/openyou/emokit
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Academic
*http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/764382/
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Art
*Lisa Park
*http://www.thelisapark.com/#/eudaimonia/
*https://vimeo.com/65175792
*Brian Foo
*https://vimeo.com/121042482
*Laura Jade
*http://laurajade.com.au/interactive-brain-light-research-project/
*Neurohack and XXX involves language processing reencoding barcodes and more
*http://www.neurohack.cc/tcd/
*Gerard Paresys
*http://gerard.paresys.free.fr/Projets/ProjetEEG.html
*Ursonnate and paqsac
*http://urssonate.org/?page_id=315
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Hack
*http://neurohack.cc/index.php?title=Software
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The emotiv website is also interesting in their slogans and choice of illustrations:
http://emotiv.com/