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Re: 'Intensity' monitor?

What exactly does a lie detector measure? Shouldn't there be something we
could monitor remotely in a third party to assess his state of excitement,
maybe heartrate? It'd be nice to quietly point a device at someone during
conversation, and have their vitals displayed on your goggles.

-S
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Carter T wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, gl wrote:
> 
> > So, any ideas a) what exactly I could be monitoring to satisy the various
> > requirements (heart/sweat rate/skin resistance/pressure/... ?), and b) what
> > I could use to do the monitoring?
> 
> You could probably just get by with a simple skin resistance measurement.
> I remember (years back...) there was a design in Popular Electronics (I
> think...) to build a simple Lie-Detector which used a couple of
> transducers.  You could expand it to include a pulse rate/blood pressure
> monitor to get a more accurate reading...
> 
> One thing you may want to include is a buffer of some kind...I know a lot
> of people that can get *REALLY* _______ (insert emotion here).  The last
> thing I'd want is to be rather engaged with my significant other and the
> monitors explode :)
> 
> Laters.
> 
> Timothy
> 
> 
> 

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