TellTale: Adding a Polygraph to Everyday Life.

TellTale is a wearable device that seeks to augment communication with subconscious emotion information. By sensing a user's heart rate and galvanic response, two major biological indicators of physiological state, TellTale can provide insight into true physiological and emotional response. In this way, TellTale acts as a playful, wearable polygraph or lie-detector. Through abstracted visualisations of the physiological data, we aim to position TellTale in-line with the learned skills of communication. In this paper, we motivate the design of TellTale, detail a prototype device and pilot study and present future areas for TellTale's exploration.