Greco, A and Valenza, G and Nardelli, M and Bianchi, M and Citi, L and Scilingo, EP (2017) Force-Velocity Assessment of Caress-Like Stimuli Through the Electrodermal Activity Processing: Advantages of a Convex Optimization Approach. IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems, 47 (1). pp. 91-100. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2016.2586478
Greco, A and Valenza, G and Nardelli, M and Bianchi, M and Citi, L and Scilingo, EP (2017) Force-Velocity Assessment of Caress-Like Stimuli Through the Electrodermal Activity Processing: Advantages of a Convex Optimization Approach. IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems, 47 (1). pp. 91-100. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2016.2586478
Greco, A and Valenza, G and Nardelli, M and Bianchi, M and Citi, L and Scilingo, EP (2017) Force-Velocity Assessment of Caress-Like Stimuli Through the Electrodermal Activity Processing: Advantages of a Convex Optimization Approach. IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems, 47 (1). pp. 91-100. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2016.2586478
Abstract
We propose the use of the convex optimization-based EDA (cvxEDA) framework to automatically characterize the force and velocity of caressing stimuli through the analysis of the electrodermal activity (EDA). CvxEDA, in fact, solves a convex optimization problem that always guarantees the globally optimal solution. We show that this approach is especially suitable for the implementation in wearable monitoring systems, being more computationally efficient than a widely used EDA processing algorithm. In addition, it ensures low-memory consumption, due to a sparse representation of the EDA phasic components. EDA recordings were gathered from 32 healthy subjects (16 females) who participated in an experiment where a fabric-based wearable haptic system conveyed them caress-like stimuli by means of two motors. Six types of stimuli (combining three levels of velocity and two of force) were randomly administered over time. Performance was evaluated in terms of execution time of the algorithm, memory usage, and statistical significance in discerning the affective stimuli along force and velocity dimensions. Experimental results revealed good performance of cvxEDA model for all of the considered metrics.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | wearable haptics; Affective haptics; caressing stimuli; convex optimization; CT fibers; electrodermal activity; electrodermal response; sparse representation |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2017 11:16 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 20:25 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/19016 |
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