From 10th to 12th Jan 2018, my colleagues and I had participated in a physical computing workshop dealing with measurement sensors. Under the guidance of Tez, we tinkered with ESP32 board with Pulse sensor, RGB Neopixel, Temperature sensor, and GSR(Galvanic Skin Response) sensor.
For the outcome of a 3days workshop, I made a fake, cheesy deceptive visual interface interacting with Pulse sensor. Additionally, I followed this tutorial for controlling Pulse sensor, and used Processing to make the visual interface. I utilized Processing Visualization App and modified it for my idea.
For some technical problem, I used Arduino instead of ESP32 board for this work. So it is basically devised to induce people to put their index finger on the Pulse sensor, and then the program analyzes the pulse rate received from the sensor. Thus people can see the visual outcome through the screen with a diagnosis phrase and the graph changing in real time.
The trick is, heart rate has no direct association with personal health. Even though lots of information online suggest proper heart rate with age, and they deceive people. I used the false information scrapped from online and combined them with pulse rate outcome.
Setup for the Open day event of my college on 17th Feb. 2018.