We decided emotions was a bad idea due to ethical concern’s. We are worried people may be offended or upset by us “telling them” their emotions, also emotions are also seen as private in most cases.

The main ways to tell someones emotion are behavioral and expressions, both of those you can fake, however, with EEG you are literally reading their mind. This is also described in the report I mentioned in my last post: (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5458075/?reload=true)

Our new idea is to measure stress or rather how active the brain is. So, as the user tries to relax we can change the environment. We want to do this with a storm behind a window, which is along the lines of what Eden was researching with komorebi (木漏れ日) 

There is also another common untranslatable word for a type of light in japanese knowen as kawa akari (川明かり) or light reflecting off a river.

So we basically want a window with a storm and rain projected onto it with sound effects that have different levels that change with the users brain activity read by the EEG. We would also like to use heart rate. I’m going to go and call this ame akari (雨明かり) light off rain.