6ense: A Wearer-Owned Sixth Sense on Consumer Wearables
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2027
Las Vegas, USA, January 2027 · Submitted to IEEE ICCE 2027; not yet published
6ense.com on a lab night: one member sharing raw EEG under a pseudonym, the 3-D printer's chamber camera, the view from a Quest 3S headset, and a workshop camera, all live at once.
Steve Mann has talked for decades about wearables as a sixth sense: sensors you wear that become a sense you own, not a feed somebody takes from you. 6ense is our attempt to build exactly that on hardware you can buy in a shop. Put on a Muse headband, open our MuseLog app, and the whole recording stays on your phone. If, and only if, you say yes, a window opens on 6ense.com: a fresh pseudonym, and only the tier you picked, from a simple “I’m here” all the way to the raw trace. Friends who have swapped codes with you can see whether you are online and how you rated your own mood. Nobody is told how you feel by an algorithm, because we do not infer it. One key deletes everything.
Cameras join the same page: our 3-D printer’s chamber camera, the view from a Quest headset, a workshop camera, each served from the computer it hangs off, so the relay never holds a picture. And there is a night mode we call Jobbing on the Sleep, after Mann’s 2020 idea, which we will say more about once the paper is out. The whole thing runs live at 6ense.com. Have a look; if one of us is wearing a headband right now, you will see it.
This paper is not yet published, so this page gives only a short summary. The full write-up and a link to the paper will follow publication.
Authors
Alexander Vicol, Steve Mann
Links
- Paper submitted to IEEE ICCE 2027 (Las Vegas, January 2027). A link will appear here once it is published.
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- 6ense.com, live right now