Abstract
Dementia is a growing problem and will continue to grow with the aging population, causing an increase in economic burden on the affected person, the family members and the society. In addition, the behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of dementia are causing additional burden on all the stakeholders. Mood can play a major role in stimulating the BPSD issues. Emotional stimulation techniques can be applied to influence the mood. The emotional stimulation phenomenon can be tracked and observed for further analysis in exploring the implications of emotions in ailments such as Alzheimer's, vascular dementia and more. This study investigates the variation of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Electrodermal activity (EDA) in response to emotional stimuli under an ethical lens. In this experiment, 26 people volunteered to participate and had their data collected for two phases; the baseline phase during which the participants were simply resting, and the emotional stimuli phase during which participants were shown emotionally evocative media. Time-domain and nonlinear analysis of HRV was then performed on the collected HRV data. Moreover, for analysis of EDA, it was decomposed into tonic and phasic components. This paper comprehensively covers the experimental protocol used, data analysis performed, the results obtained and the observations from the conducted study along with some of the ethical aspects. This study can help reduce the burden of the caregivers of people affected with dementia.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 1652-1662 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9798350320282 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2022 |
Event | 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: Dec 14 2022 → Dec 16 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings - 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 |
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Conference
Conference | 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Las Vegas |
Period | 12/14/22 → 12/16/22 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 IEEE.
Keywords
- EDA
- Emotional stimulation
- dementia
- electrodermal activity
- heart rate variability