Multi-Modal Acute Stress Recognition Using Off-the-Shelf Wearable Devices

Victoriano Montesinos, Fabio Dell'Agnola, Adriana Arza, Amir Aminifar, David Atienza

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Abstract

Monitoring stress and, in general, emotions has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades. Stress monitoring has many applications, including high-risk missions and surgical procedures as well as mental/emotional health monitoring. In this paper, we evaluate the possibility of stress and emotion monitoring using off-the-shelf wearable sensors. To this aim, we propose a multi-modal machine-learning technique for acute stress episodes detection, by fusing the information careered in several biosignals and wearable sensors. Furthermore, we investigate the contribution of each wearable sensor in stress detection and demonstrate the possibility of acute stress recognition using wearable devices. In particular, we acquire the physiological signals using the Shimmer3 ECG Unit and the Empatica E4 wristband. Our experimental evaluation shows that it is possible to detect acute stress episodes with an accuracy of 84.13%, for an unseen test set, using multi-modal machinelearning and sensor-fusion techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
PublisherIEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2196-2201
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538613115
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Jul
Externally publishedYes
Event41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 2019 Jul 232019 Jul 27

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period2019/07/232019/07/27

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Computer Sciences

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