Title
Profiling visual and verbal stress responses using electrodermal heart rate and hormonal measures.
Abstract
Assessing psychological stress is essential for monitoring general health and wellbeing. One key element is the detection of the stimulus, i.e., stressor that evokes a stress response. Visual and verbal stimuli are elementary arousal elements of daily stress responses. The study aim was to discriminate the stress responses from watching videos and speaking using electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV) measures. A cohort of 12 subjects completed a laboratory experiment comprising of 4 psychological tasks (watching a relaxing video and a violent video, speaking by counting and speaking on an unknown topic). In total, 17 physiological features were calculated from the EDA and HRV signals. Four classifiers were investigated regarding their ability to discriminate between verbal and visual stimulated stress responses with a maximum accuracy of 92% achieved. This demonstrates that the measured signals have potential for tracking and differentiating the stress responses of watching videos or speaking in real-time by using wearable EDA and HRV devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/BSN.2013.6575481
BSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
hormones,feature extraction,classification,heart rate variability,psychology,eda,stress,hrv,sensors
Fight-or-flight response,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Heart rate,Stimulus (physiology),Stressor,Audiology,Computer vision,Arousal,Heart rate variability,Laboratory experiment,Speech recognition,Psychological stress
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-1425
978-1-4799-0331-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loubna Bouarfa111.07
Pawel Bembnowicz200.68
Blair Crewther300.34
Delaram Jarchi46610.96
Guang-Zhong Yang52812297.66