Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.

This paper introduces activity-related behavioural features that can be automatically extracted from a computer system, with the aim to increase the effectiveness of automatic stress detection. The proposed features are based on processing of appropriate video and accelerometer recordings taken from...

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Autores principales: Dimitris Giakoumis, Anastasios Drosou, Pietro Cipresso, Dimitrios Tzovaras, George Hassapis, Andrea Gaggioli, Giuseppe Riva
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:785796857bed47928e136664410ff6962021-11-18T07:05:02ZUsing activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0043571https://doaj.org/article/785796857bed47928e136664410ff6962012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23028461/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203This paper introduces activity-related behavioural features that can be automatically extracted from a computer system, with the aim to increase the effectiveness of automatic stress detection. The proposed features are based on processing of appropriate video and accelerometer recordings taken from the monitored subjects. For the purposes of the present study, an experiment was conducted that utilized a stress-induction protocol based on the stroop colour word test. Video, accelerometer and biosignal (Electrocardiogram and Galvanic Skin Response) recordings were collected from nineteen participants. Then, an explorative study was conducted by following a methodology mainly based on spatiotemporal descriptors (Motion History Images) that are extracted from video sequences. A large set of activity-related behavioural features, potentially useful for automatic stress detection, were proposed and examined. Experimental evaluation showed that several of these behavioural features significantly correlate to self-reported stress. Moreover, it was found that the use of the proposed features can significantly enhance the performance of typical automatic stress detection systems, commonly based on biosignal processing.Dimitris GiakoumisAnastasios DrosouPietro CipressoDimitrios TzovarasGeorge HassapisAndrea GaggioliGiuseppe RivaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 9, p e43571 (2012)
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Dimitris Giakoumis
Anastasios Drosou
Pietro Cipresso
Dimitrios Tzovaras
George Hassapis
Andrea Gaggioli
Giuseppe Riva
Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
description This paper introduces activity-related behavioural features that can be automatically extracted from a computer system, with the aim to increase the effectiveness of automatic stress detection. The proposed features are based on processing of appropriate video and accelerometer recordings taken from the monitored subjects. For the purposes of the present study, an experiment was conducted that utilized a stress-induction protocol based on the stroop colour word test. Video, accelerometer and biosignal (Electrocardiogram and Galvanic Skin Response) recordings were collected from nineteen participants. Then, an explorative study was conducted by following a methodology mainly based on spatiotemporal descriptors (Motion History Images) that are extracted from video sequences. A large set of activity-related behavioural features, potentially useful for automatic stress detection, were proposed and examined. Experimental evaluation showed that several of these behavioural features significantly correlate to self-reported stress. Moreover, it was found that the use of the proposed features can significantly enhance the performance of typical automatic stress detection systems, commonly based on biosignal processing.
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author Dimitris Giakoumis
Anastasios Drosou
Pietro Cipresso
Dimitrios Tzovaras
George Hassapis
Andrea Gaggioli
Giuseppe Riva
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title Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
title_short Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
title_full Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
title_fullStr Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
title_full_unstemmed Using activity-related behavioural features towards more effective automatic stress detection.
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