Spaceout is a experimental project created during Hackendo 2014 focusing on wearable tech. This project uses an Emotiv EPOC to detect when a user is daydreaming and an Android phone to constantly record ambient audio. If the user is spacing out, an alert is flashed on the user's phone and the recorded audio is streamed to the Wit API for audio-to-text translation. This text is then displayed to the user on their phone (or even better, on a Google Glass-style heads-up display) so the user can catch up on what they missed while daydreaming.
Currently a laptop or other general computer is required to run the code polling the Emotiv headset, but when Emotiv releases an Android version of their API then the polling code can be merged into the Android side of this project and the laptop requirement eliminated.
Poll Emotive hardware continuously over serial interface (Java) for mental state. If space-out state is detected, store to internal variable and wait for next request from Android side to respond with message indicating the space-out state has occurred.
Language: Java
cd neural
mvn install
java -jar target/spaceout-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Note: Use DEBUG=1 Java system property (-D) to use with the EmoComposer software.
Continously record audio, keeping a buffer of the last n seconds of audio, where n is somewhere around 10 s. Continuously poll Laptop-side, checking if a space-out state has occurred. When space-out has occurred, send audio buffer to wit.ai. Flash screen chartreuse and display text received back from wit.ai to the screen. Continue translation in this manner until user hits OK button or Wit.AI returns no text translated.