Okay so.
I could make a portable EEG and hook it up to a selfmade app. Then it would be simple to hack a fit bit into a stress tracker to gather more data.
Combine all that.data with self reporting and I think I could capture day to day emotional response and regulation.
I would, naturally, only test this with myself, and consenting adults.
If you were so inclined, you could consider making it an open project eventually -- open hardware specs, open software -- with an AGPL license or something even less corp-friendly -- and then people could track their OWN data, in their OWN studies. :)
(open as in 'released publicly', to clarify -- not 'open' as in 'hey do a bunch of other people wanna come work on it', not everybody's up for that and I wasn't thinking it when I said that -- just to be clear)
@sydneyfalk That's a really interesting idea and I was sort of thinking that way, actually. The purpose of this for me is in a thread I wrote earlier today, as well as aided mindfulness. But! I'm certain it would have many applications.
It would by no means go public as a SmartTracker. It would not go into the mental health sphere. It is purely for my personal hacky studies.