TY  - CONF
ID  - Schumm08a
T1  - Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event
A1  - Schumm, Johannes
A1  - Bächlin, Marc
A1  - Setz, Cornelia
A1  - Arnrich, Bert
A1  - Roggen, Daniel
A1  - Tröster, Gerhard
TI  - Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health)
Y1  - 2008
SP  - 315
EP  - 318
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4571101
M2  - doi: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571101
KW  - arnrich_physio
KW  - DAPHNET
KW  - SEAT
N2  - 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.
ER  -