A Preliminary Analysis of the Physiological Response Generated by Negative Thoughts

Asier Salazar-Ramirez, Nagore Sagastibeltza, Ainhoa Yera , Raquel Martinez, Javier Muguerza

2020 - The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services. CENTRIC 2020.

Oral communication

Línea investigación:
Physiological computing
Authors by signature order:
Asier Salazar-Ramirez, Nagore Sagastibeltza, Ainhoa Yera , Raquel Martinez, Javier Muguerza
Description:

Positive and negative thoughts have a great impact on the human organism. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the physiological effects of negative thougths using affective computing techniques. With this aim, we carried out an experiment in which participants had to recall past negative experiences while their physiological signals were being collected. Then, using two althgoritnms based on biosignal analysis, we assessed their levels of stress and relaxation at each time. According to the results, 100% of the participants who had negative thougths produced a physiological response to stress. This is promising, since it could enable affective computing based systems to adapt to the emotional state of the users thougth the real time monitoring of the physiologival signals of the human body.

Publication year:
2020
Start page:
15
Final page:
18
ISBN - ISSN:
2308-3492
File URL:
https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=centric_2020_1_30_30012
Publication name:
Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services
congress name:
The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services. CENTRIC 2020.
Celebration place:
Porto
Country:
Portugal
Start date:
2020-10-18
Final date:
2020-10-22