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This collection, ‘‘Advances in Physiological Computing,’’ constitutes the most
significant milestone thus far on an idea track that stretches back through the
vision posed by Allanson and Fairclough’s ‘‘A research agenda for physiological
computing’’ (2004) and the body of work cited there to the genius of Wiener,
Walter, and Ashby. My own leg of this relay was inspired by several whose work
is little known, but whose contributions merit commending to present-day workers
in this field.
Kenneth Gaarder was one of the three organizers of the 1969 Santa Monica
meeting where the new technique of biofeedback was defined and named (Moss
1999), and coauthor of ‘‘Clinical biofeedback: A procedural manual’’ (1967),
formatted in the style of Ashby’s ‘‘Design for a Brain’’ (1954). Ken was an early
mentor who urged this writer to apply control systems theory to the biofeedback
enterprise, an entreaty that eventually found expression in empirical investigations
of biocybernetic adaptation (Pope et al. 1995). |
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