Non-intrusive Physiological Monitoring for Affective Sensing of Computer Users

Barreto, Armando

doi:10.5772/5874

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“…Electrocardiogram (ECG) or named as electrocardiogram (EKG) is the way to measure HRV by recording electrical activity generated by an impulse of ions flowing through cardiac muscles. In order to deal with intense stress, heart frequency (Barreto, 2008) increases and this can be observed by decrease in ECG amplitude. (Sharma & Gedeon, 2012) 2.9.1.3 Brain Activity…”

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Monitoring Physiological Reactions of Construction Workers in Virtual Environment: A Feasibility Study Using Affective Sensing Technology

Ergun¹

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Monitoring Physiological Reactions of Construction Workers in Virtual Environment: A Feasibility Study Using Affective Sensing Technology

Ergun¹

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“…According to Picard [2], affective computing involves not only emotion detection, but also extends to the implementation of emotions, and attempts to give the computer the ability to recognize and express emotions. Barreto [17] identified three key components in the affective computing process initially proposed by Hudlicka [18] …”

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A Digital Signal Processing Approach for Affective Sensing of a Computer User through Pupil Diameter Monitoring

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“…There are three main key components in affective computing, which are initially proposed by Hudlicka [11] and identified by Barreto [12]: …”

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Off-line and On-line Affective Recognition of a Computer User through A Biosignal Processing Approach

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Physiological signals, which are controlled by the autonomic nervous system (ANS), could be used to detect the affective state of computer users and therefore find applications in medicine and engineering. The Pupil Diameter (PD) seems to provide a strong indication of the affective state, as found by previous research, but it has not been investigated fully yet.In this study, new approaches based on monitoring and processing the PD signal for off-line and on-line affective assessment ("relaxation" vs. "stress") are proposed.Wavelet denoising and Kalman filtering methods are first used to remove abrupt changes in the raw Pupil Diameter (PD) signal. Then three features (PDmean, PDmax and PDWalsh) are extracted from the preprocessed PD signal for the affective state classification. In order to select more relevant and reliable physiological data for further analysis, two types of data selection methods are applied, which are based on the paired t-test and subject self-evaluation, respectively. In addition, five different kinds of the classifiers are implemented on the selected data, which achieve average accuracies up to 86.43% and 87.20%, respectively. Finally, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) vii curve is utilized to investigate the discriminating potential of each individual feature by evaluation of the area under the ROC curve, which reaches values above 0.90.For the on-line affective assessment, a hard threshold is implemented first in order to remove the eye blinks from the PD signal and then a moving average window is utilized to obtain the representative value PD r for every one-second time interval of PD.There are three main steps for the on-line affective assessment algorithm, which are preparation, feature-based decision voting and affective determination. The final resultsshow that the accuracies are 72.30% and 73.55% for the data subsets, which were respectively chosen using two types of data selection methods (paired t-test and subject self-evaluation).In order to further analyze the efficiency of affective recognition through the PD signal, the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) was also monitored and processed. The highest affective assessment classification rate obtained from GSR processing is only 63.57% (based on the off-line processing algorithm). The overall results confirm that the PD signal should be considered as one of the most powerful physiological signals to involve in future automated real-time affective recognition systems, especially for detecting the "relaxation" vs. "stress" states.viii

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Non-intrusive Physiological Monitoring for Affective Sensing of Computer Users

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Monitoring Physiological Reactions of Construction Workers in Virtual Environment: A Feasibility Study Using Affective Sensing Technology

Monitoring Physiological Reactions of Construction Workers in Virtual Environment: A Feasibility Study Using Affective Sensing Technology

A Digital Signal Processing Approach for Affective Sensing of a Computer User through Pupil Diameter Monitoring

Off-line and On-line Affective Recognition of a Computer User through A Biosignal Processing Approach

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