Overview

We're attempting to synchronize heartbeats of strangers with visual & auditory feedback. This document is a near-complete record of everything we worked on, including the dead ends. See the Etherpad and Github below for a more polished and concise report on our final project, including all files and instructions on how to replicate it.

Documentation:

Etherpad

StartupSam/heartbeats

Research summary

Assessing Cross-Partner Associations in Physiological Responses via Coupled Oscillator Models

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• Damn - this isn't even rate synchronization, they used a mathematical model (coupled oscillator something) to measure "synchronization".
• We may need to make a similar conversion.

Heartbeats can sync with breathing

Human Heartbeats and Breathing Can Synchronize

• As the title says, heartbeats can synchronize with breathing. I think incorporating synchronized breathing will be an important component if this is possible
• The author didn't cite the original paper, what an ass
• Can find it later if it's really important

HeartRATE patterns synchronize between trusted partners (weird fire walking study)

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• Participants heart rates increased and decreased in sync, but didn't have the same rate, let alone phase sync