Working each week with young people who have found themselves on the cusp of educational exclusion, the question “how are you” takes on a certain urgency.
Part of the InFindoingOut project is about encouraging young people to engage with a self-assessment routine that is designed to establish how they are really feeling, based on a sincere pupil-led desire to be accurate.
Biometric sensors will be deployed to provide them with an objective measure of what their bodies can indicate about mood, anxiety and general wellbeing.
Our new equipment will provide many such metrics, including this EEG sensor.
The first test of this – at the SoS in Swindon – was fascianting. Pupils were eager to volunteer to put the head band equipment on and to see the readout. We used Chat GPT video analysis to be told in general terms about what the readout was indicating
