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positive reinforcement for babies
spectroscopy teether detects cortisol, or IR thermography of face determines happiness; pick up the baby and do activities when it is in a good mood! | |
It occurred to me that from what I have read of babies,
behavioral psychology reinforcement comes mainly from
distress. When they cry you pick them up, feed them, or
change their diapers.
What if you could find out when a baby was in a
particularly good mood, say top 20% and then cuddle it,
or perhaps practice holding up its hands and toddling?
the baby might then associate good things with feeling
good. it could be a new frontier in child raising.
Determining a baby's mood could come from a teether
that does raman spectroscopy (i have read about small
optical torus assemblies that do this) or possibly truth
detector technology, like Anbar's patent on using a digital
thermography camera to detect stress.
Baby monitors could tell you the mood of your baby, so
you could rush in when it was very happy and play with
it!
Of course you would continue to respond to your baby
when it was distressed,
The core idea might be little new: find the happiest
times, then interact more, possibly improving
development and learning. This could also lead parents
to enjoy their children even more.
30 millimeter raman spectroscopy
http://www.spectros...-raman-spectrometer
[beanangel, Jun 04 2018]
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[beany], it's good that you're thinking about this kind of stuff,
but you do realize that your robot girlfriend is very unlikely to
get pregnant? |
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Technically I know positive reinforcement is giving them a treat after a shapeable preferred behavior, but you get the idea. |
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From the title, we thought this would be some sort of cybernetic reinforcement of the immature skeleton. |
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Do you realize that it's an essential part of human development to be given attention as a baby when you're distressed? To be taught that when you cry someone will care for you? Do you realize that and you intentionally created a horrible idea or are you an alien? |
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[voice] You would still attend to the baby when it was
distressed! |
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I am almost distressed that this could be interpreted that
way, so I made an edit. |
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The idea is a little new: find the happiest times, then
interact more, possibly improving development and
learning. This could also lead parents to enjoy their
children even more. |
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// lead parents to enjoy their children even more // |
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Is that not what nannies, au-pairs, governesses and other domestic staff are for ? |
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It is almost as if you are suggesting something more than the absolute minimum of contact with offspring. No good purpose can be served by this. However, the Australians have made huge advances in this area; very few of them know who their male parent is. |
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// Do you realize that it's an essential part of human development to be given attention as a baby when you're distressed? // |
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It is ? Really ? Who knew, huh ? |
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// To be taught that when you cry someone will care for you? // |
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Someone will care enough to jab you with an electric shock probe, then administer a long-acting sedative via a dart gun. |
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// Do you realize that and you intentionally created a horrible idea or are you an alien? // |
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Definitely not an alien. Wierd, misguided, surreal, left-field - yes. But alien ? Definitely not. Trust us on this. 46 Chromosomes, all present and correct ... confirmed human. All your fault, homo sapiens, no-one else to blame. |
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In my mind, this is staging the positive which makes gaining a human experience harder to achieve in the real of the moment. |
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[beanangel] Look all around at 'design'. At all levels including this level. Is this really a good idea? |
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If it had said "find happy babies. Make them even happier"
and "happy babies might like new activities more because
they are already happy; new learning could result" It might
have gotten better reception. |
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The other thing of course is testing! Do this with ten or
twenty babies and see how the babies and parents feel
about it. |
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The parents will be happy if you simply take the babies far away, and keep them. |
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There is nothing even remotely interesting or attractive about human infants. They are nearly as repulsive as kittens, and worse, it seems to be frowned upon if you put them in a sack with a brick and drop them into deep, cold water. |
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[8th], it may shock to you know that your own parents are not
representative of the general population. Some of your peers
were perhaps even allowed on the furniture. |
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I think 8th should have a bunch of borg babies. It
would do him some good. |
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... but the successive cesarians would void the warranty on his
implants. |
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One of my brothers-in-law had this rule for crying babies: |
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If you're crying because you're hot, cold, hungry or dirty, then the
nearest parent can and should intervene promptly and fix the
problem. If it's creeping existential horror, then you're on your
own. |
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His children have turned out pretty well so far. |
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Thankfully their mother was also around. |
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Cesarean? What is this, the dark ages? I would think
they'd put that transporter to good use. |
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