My Homepage Has a Pulse
A developer has integrated real-time heart rate data from their Garmin wearable onto their personal homepage to create a 'pulse' indicator. The project reflects a desire to move away from abstract 'online' status indicators toward more personal, physiological representations of presence.
There is a small red heart on my homepage now that beats. The number next to it is my actual heart rate, and the heart pulses at that frequency: 48 bpm means one thump every 1.25 seconds, 80 bpm means one every 0.75. I wrote this up because I wanted to, and because the design ended up containing more interesting decisions than I expected.
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