On Wednesday I researched brainwaves associated with stress and different stress factors that can be used to stimulate the activities of the brain in order to be able to measure them. In addition, I looked at the work of other researchers in this area as well as well as older projects of HPA students that worked in a similar area. Furthermore, I learned more about presenting my work in the future from other students and Dr. Wicking.
On Thursday I did my first hands on tests. My test- object was my little brother Jona. He is 10 years old and very interested technic as well as video games etc. He is bilingual, speaking German and English, which makes him an interesting test- object.
On Friday I organised my data:
One of the most interesting things I found by recording the data was the rather high attention level when he was reading in english. When reading in german, on the other hand, his attention level was nearly half as high on average.
Another very interesting observation I could make was the influence of music on his attention and meditation level. I tested him on both without playing music, and with music, with the "Float" (meditation) and "Burn" (attention) exercises. Without the music he was not able to burn the box nor able to practice the "float"- exercise properly. With music, on the other hand, we can see high level results.
Next week (7) I will do further studies with him, looking more into the brainwave activities while playing video games, as well as understanding more how his brainwaves are affected by being bilingual. Therefore, I will continue to use mind wave and brainwave visualiser, but do not need any new material.
I discovered that various sources describe the annotations to each frequency a little bit differently. I was looking for as many sources as possible to understand what the common annotations really are. Therefore, I found following information on the brainwave frequencies, that explained further in what cases the different waves occur.
At times both the attention as well as the meditation level were relatively low. These results were seen towards the second half of the screening, due to the decrease in concentration. 
At certain points during the game Jona showed maximal levels of attention during the game. 
These were dominantly seen towards the beginning of the screening. 
I continued the list, did some more research and had interesting discussions with peers and their opinions on my project and what I could focus on. Now I am going to find out more about the way I can best measure the stress level with the material that I have and what material I will need to do so. I was thinking about designing a test that I can let people take with different time limits, different fields (language, math, etc.), and at different times of the dates and closely monitor them. Here the additional list of thoughts: 
