Hugo Silva

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Hugo Plácido da Silva | Hugo completed a BS in Computer Science, and a MS in Electrical and Computers Engineering. Since 2004, Hugo is a researcher at the IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he’s currently pursuing his PhD. In 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Computational and NeuroEgineering Labority (CNEL) from the University of Florida. He is also one of the co-founders of PLUX – Wireless Biosignals, established in 2007 as an innovative technology-based company operating in the field of medical devices for healthcare and quality of life, where Hugo is currently a Board Member and Innovation Advisor.

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Hi William,

Thanks for the feedback and for the pointers to the HRV tools, they're really handy.

OpenBCI is pretty cool... you should consider adding BITalino to your toolbox also:
http://bitalino.com

Best regards,
Hugo Silva

Tests so far show that signal quality is pretty comparable, even when using non-gelled (more practical) electrodes.

A recent study just came out reporting the results for that: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12553-015-0098-y