Paper Info
Title
Correlating an Ambulatory Voice Measure to Electrodermal Activity in Patients with Vocal Hyperfunction
Abstract
We investigate the connection between the autonomic nervous system and the voice in patients with vocal hyperfunction and healthy-control groups. We present a methodology and preliminary results of two multi-modal measurement streams that capture this relationship. Subjects were instrumented for daily, ambulatory collection of their voice and wrist-based electrodermal activity. Measures of vocal function (e.g., fundamental frequency) were computed, as well as measures of autonomic function (e.g., skin conductance response). Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated to measure the relationship between vocal and autonomic function over sliding windows throughout each observation day. We found preliminary evidence that patients with a subtype of vocal hyperfunction (non-phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction) exhibit a coupling between the autonomic nervous system and the vocal system. Understanding how the autonomic nervous system interacts with the voice may provide new insights into the etiology/pathophysiology of vocal hyperfunction and improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/BSN.2019.8771097
2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ambulatory,autonomic,voice,electrodermal
Computer vision,Autonomic nervous system,Ambulatory,Computer science,Hyperfunction,Artificial intelligence,Audiology,Vocal function,Skin conductance
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2019
2376-8886
978-1-7281-0804-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory Ciccarelli1424.27
Daryush D. Mehta215213.61
Andrew Ortiz300.34
Jarrad H Van Stan4133.64
Laura Toles500.34
Katherine Marks600.34
Robert E. Hillman7548.37
Thomas F. Quatieri83975608.30