Research Article
Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2529, author={Johannes Schumm and Marc Bachlin and Cornelia Setz and Bert Arnrich and Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Troster}, title={Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2008}, month={7}, keywords={Acceleration Accelerometers Electronic design automation and methodology Fingers Laboratories Lead Legged locomotion Skin Stress Wearable computers}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2529} }- Johannes Schumm
Marc Bachlin
Cornelia Setz
Bert Arnrich
Daniel Roggen
Gerhard Troster
Year: 2008
Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2529
Abstract
Due to the fact that the electrodermal activity (EDA) is of high interest for stress research there is a need of a continuous measurement of the EDA. In studies related to the EDA exists nowadays a large discrepancy between the use of controlled environment studies and daily life surveys. This paper steps into this gap by presenting the effect of continuous, stationary movements on the EDA. During an extensive experiment, we performed controlled speeds of walking as movements and startle events as an actuator. We evaluated whether it may be possible to provoke and measure the EDA response to the startle event during these different walking speeds. Our study contributes to the knowledge about the reliability of the EDA in real life applications. For this work, we developed a special EDA-sensor that measures the EDA, performs signal preprocessing of the EDA and simultaneously measures the acceleration of the fingers.