Gareth


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    GSR Readout - Update

    Thursday, January 10, 2008, 09:26 AM [Hypnotech]

    The first stages of the GSR hardware and software are now working and providing results.
    The data received is smoothed and displayed as a traditional analogue display and also as a digital readout. There's something quite rewarding about watching software react as you put the probes on your skin and then watching the needle pop when you moisten the skin.

    Pic shows the response with wet fingers on the prototype version.

     

    Obviously, there are problems testing the skin response on myself as I'm watching the meter. The real-time feedback of an analogue meter doesn't lend itself to easily seeing long term variations in the response. With this in mind I will start looking at adding a representation of a paper fed "polygraph" showing the previous 5-10 minutes or so in order to gauge the response over a longer period of time.

    Next stages are to make it look nice, add a calibration button to set the client's base level response and start testing less invasive probes than the finger straps.

    Gareth

    http://www.garethholmes.org

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    GSR readout on the PC

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 06:06 AM [Hypnotech]

    Phew,

    After a night of poking about with wiring and tweaking code, the first tests of a Galvanic Skin Response meter for windows/mac and linux are beginning to show fruit.

    The basic concept is to take my existing GSR meter and run the results in real-time to the computer where it can be combined with camera footage, audio etc. to create a complete picture of the therapeutic process. An Arduino board has been selected for easy communication between the GSR circuit and the computer.

    The Arduino Diecimila.

    Current state of play has a standalone circuit which measure skin conductivity (+3v) and feeds the real time results to the computer where they are displayed as arbitrary scale. The next stage will be working on a few visualisations for displaying the data in a more user friendly method.

    At present the system connects with the PC via usb although a bluetooth version is planned on completion of the first system.

    Pics and videos to follow as things take shape.

    Gareth

    http://www.garethholmes.org 

     

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    gareth, could you please let me know other "hypnoart" related stuff if you know anything else? i'd love to venture more. thanks!
    deeply,

    Molado
    April 23, 2008
    04:43 PM CST

    Gareth,
    I am linking a blog to my main hypnosis website and am looking for comments from hypnosis professionals, to give me their feedback, if you have the time to add your input the blog address is
    www.hypnosisforlastingcha...
    Many thanks
    Bobby Herdman

    Bobby
    February 23, 2008
    07:51 AM CST

    Hi Gareth

    Well ProgRels are out of the question! LOL

    One of the insomniacs, I didn't get. The rest I'm pretty sure will get a positive outcome, though time, of course, will tell.

    We know the white coat phobia treatment worked though with that one I also dealt with her fear of eating at formal dinner parties and reduced her 'panic platform' from 10 to -7 (at which point her subc was comfortable).

    The 20 minute limit is actually quite helpful. I do a rapid induction and go right to IMRs. If I don't get any I tell the subc that we don't have time for faffing about so get on the job. I then tend to ask the subc to give their host everything they wanted coming in so they have it going out.

    And, of course, I check to make sure it's all congruent.

    This was only the third speed-hypno event I've held, but I know that the previous two were pretty effective. One guy dropped five stone without effort or discipline in 9 months after one of them, for example.

    Of course, it doesn't work for everyone but, then, neither does Prozac.

    The thing I like about it most is that I get to put out global e-mails around the hospital, two PCTs and the Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability that I also cover, 'advertising' (if you like) "Speed Hypno".

    Back in 2003 they didn't want me to mention hypnosis, and I called it "Relaxation and Feel-Good" in the publicity. But in the sessions I said it was hypnotherapy and now no one bats an eyelid. I have a web page on the hospital intranet all about clinical hypnotism and me, everyone knows I'm a hypnotist and whilst a few doctors probably still think what I do is un-medical I really don't think anyone thinks it odd. Not anymore. In a way I guess I do the speed hypno thing not just because it's an efficient use of my time, but because it also pushes at the boundaries of what's acceptable and accepted.

    Best wishes

    barry

    Barry
    February 01, 2008
    02:37 PM CST

    Thank you. You pointed me to the root of the problem. For some reason, WordPress's "code" interface was messing up the tags unless I did it in *just* the right way. And IE, of course, is "flexible" enough to display properly, despite the malformed code.

    Firefox, being more strict with the standards, had issues.

    Wordpress kept making it "object /object param ... embed /embed" if I added a br or p tag after it so as to have a space between it and the text. I had to insert a new para first, then put placeholder text in there, *then* paste the embed code.

    Way more complicated than it needs to be, if you ask me. ;)

    Joshua Johnston
    January 22, 2008
    01:53 PM CST