Exploring emotional stimulation to better address BPSD: Analysis of heart rate variability, electrodermal activity, mood alterations and its ethical implications of in dementia care

Yumna Anwar, Arshia Khan

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1652-1662
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9798350320282
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Dec 14 2022Dec 16 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022

Conference

Conference2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period12/14/2212/16/22

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Keywords

  • EDA
  • Emotional stimulation
  • dementia
  • electrodermal activity
  • heart rate variability

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