Wearable Instrument for Skin Potential Response Analysis in AAL applications |
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| Antonio Affanni, Giovanni Chiorboli |
- Abstract:
- A novel instrument able to acquire Skin Potential Response (SPR) signals is proposed; SPR is a branch of Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and consists of reading nervous electric pulses that arise when the sympathetic nervous system activates sweat glands as a reaction of an external stressing stimulus. Scientific literature shows that EDA is a good methodology to detect workload, increased stress level and many neurological diseases or addictions. In this paper, we present the design and characterization of a wearable, battery operated, wireless device which can acquire SPR data and can be integrated in a wireless sensor network for the AAL. The developed control panel is responsible of receiving the SPR data, plotting them in real time and, on a secondary screen, providing to the patient visual and auditory stimuli; as a further stimuli generator, an adaptive game controlled by the SPR signal has been developed. The synchronous plot of stimuli markers and SPR signal on the same graph can provide a very useful information for the SPR analysis.
- Keywords:
- Electrodermal Activity, Evoked Potentials, Wearable Instruments, Wireless sensors
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2014-418.pdf
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 Symposium 2014
- Title:
20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"- Place:
- Benevento, ITALY
- Time:
- 15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014