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Mirror On The Wall: How Did My Day Go?  May 17, 2013, 7:58 PM
What's the Latest Development?  Currently being tested at MIT's
Media Lab is a system called Inside-Out that, true to its name,
allows a person to visualize the emotional ups and down of a
typical day. There are three main parts to the system: a
biosensor embedded into a wristband, a smartphone that records
its user's surroundings and collects the biosensor data, and a
one-way mirror in front of a computer with a Kinect sensor. On
this mirror, the user can review their day's events as received
by the biosensor and smartphone, using gestures to indicate what
they want to see. Inside-Out was presented earlier this year at
the IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication conference.
What's the Big Idea?  There are many potential benefits to a
system that display