I love that this was published in the same overall goddamn umbrella organization that sent me reviewers that said my work had "too much psychology" cited in it I AM. GOING. TO. LOSE. IT.

eyeblinks as a measure of frustration? I'm going to throw my entire laptop into the ocean

this is UNCRITICALLY cited in a BIG paper with NO reference to it being a biometrics study AT ALL

I mean. Can we measure things with EEG and with eyetracking, yes we can. Can we detect different kinds of waves yes we can. Do blinks correlate with something, I don't know, probably. This is all just so effing strange.

how is engineering the most critical field with the LEAST critical research I've ever seen. Do you guys just think if something is published in Fuck All Journal, 2024, that makes it good?

ML CLASSIFIER ON SIX DATA POINTS WHAT IS HAPPENING

Movement dominates brain activity, and is ALSO a huge artifact in any skin conductance. So like THAT'S a confound in these conditions. Yet no details at all about how this is truly analyzed, because it's an off the shelf EEG "band" someone bought with some research cash I bet. This paper is "we thought this was cool and so we bought a lot of stuff and tried it."

What's the play guys. What's the thing. Are we going to believe developers are human beings if we count enough eyeblinks and say they're systematically different if you focus harder? Are we going to unlock the magical super Computer Brain region if we measure hard enough?

MY WIFE PUBLISHED A PAPER ABOUT HOW MOVEMENT DOMINATES BRAIN ACTIVITY AND NEEDS TO BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN MEASURES AND NONE OF THESE GUYS READ IT

one of the measures is defined as capturing "various emotional states" I am dying

somebody made like twelve tables for this paper. Just like, table after table of everything they could tally up. NOT ONE OF THESE THINGS SHOWS KEY INFORMATION ABOUT THE EEG. This is like the baseball statistics version of analysis. Just tallying up as many numbers as possible. "mean task completion" across like six people which tells us fuck all about fuck all stfu

look, it's not that I wish anything but healing upon these people who wrote this paper and don't know better. it's just that you're so underserved. You're so underserved and you don't even know it. Somebody is serving you up a plate of raw hamburger paired with rat shit in the back alley next to the dumpster and telling you it's fine dining. You (software developers) BUILD THE WORLD. YOU COULD GET A NICE MEAL ONCE IN A WHILE.

You're stuck. We're all stuck. We're stuck in the back alley trying to say please god believe I have emotions look at my eyeballs WHO PUT US HERE

oh, I see, the sensor (purchased from some random website) has "two pre-processed signals" omfffffg YOU GUYS. HOW IT IS PROCESSED IS THE POINT

we're going to say that brain waves are predictive but not say WHICH brain waves we're talking about?

@grimalkina I am sitting in a black belt board test for my kids martial arts class and reading this during a break and desperately trying not to loudly lose it. This is “we did an fMRI on a cheeseburger to see if it has the buddha nature” levels of gobbledygook. How did someone write all this down without realizing what they were doing??