From: Ron Reisman < Ila>
To: jeevacation mail.com, Al Seckel , Isabel Maxwell
, Catherine Mohr , Murray Gell-Mann
Frances Arnold
Christof Koch <k >, len@caltech.edu,
Gerald Jay Sussma Julie Sussman
Paul Mohr Re:chart
Um 011 P.cichart Dan Dubno , Pablos Holman
Pablos Holman Brock Pierce
Paul Kirkaas
Alexander Djerassi
Elizabeth Laura <eseckel@ucsd.edu>,
I i sab@whattoexpect.org
Subject: New Human--Dolphin Experiments!
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:12:17 +0000
Attachments: DolphinEffectOnHumanAffect
Greetings All,
Last January's get-together started me thinking about Dolphins again,
and particularly about the the effect Dolphins have on human emotions.
To make a long story short: I'm conducting experiments at the Dolphin
Research Center (DRC) on human sympathetic nervous system response
during dockside interaction with Dolphin. The trials will begin
tomorrow (Thurs., August 18, 2011) morning, and will continue for two
days.
We are using a portable logging polygraph developed by the MIT Media
Lab Cognitive Computing group and their commercial spin-off Affectiva
to monitor visceral human responses during structured (ie repeatable)
interactions with dolphins.
If any of you are in the area and/or curious about this very early
stage research, please feel free to visit us at DRC (on Grassy Key,
FL) to see for yourselves. This invitation is particularly apt
(IMHO), since I only began seriously considering starting this work
after (during? :-) our meeting in the Virgin Islands, and some
conversations with several of you (you know who your are :-) provided
the impetus to get me going on this project.
Also, inspired by Jeffrey's philanthropy, this is the first research
project which I've self-financed myself (albeit on a much smaller
scale than Jeffrey's :-).
Any and all last-minute advice and/or constructive criticism is
welcome and appreciated.
All the best to y'all in all your endeavors.
--Ron
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PPS: A brief description of the project is attached.
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