A Controlled Study for Measuring Stress Induced Changes of Physiologic Tremor with a Wearable Activity Sensor

Rüdiger Zillmer, Brian Newby, Robert Treloar

2014

Abstract

This work presents the results of a controlled study with the aim to quantify the effect of emotional stress on physiologic tremor. A paced auditory addition test is utilized to induce emotional stress. The tremor is measured by means of a wearable activity sensor (GENEA), were empirical mode decomposition is used to extract the tremor signal. An autoregressive model and the fractal dimension of the signal are used to construct tremor features. The result of an ANOVA test provides evidence that the stress condition increases the tremor strength compared to the control. The observed changes of the spectral properties indicate that emotional stress affects intentional tremor. These findings support the usage of wearable activity sensors for the investigation of stress-related tremor changes and the evaluation of emotional context.

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Zillmer R., Newby B. and Treloar R. (2014). A Controlled Study for Measuring Stress Induced Changes of Physiologic Tremor with a Wearable Activity Sensor . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-011-6, pages 178-182. DOI: 10.5220/0004789701780182


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@conference{biosignals14,
author={Rüdiger Zillmer and Brian Newby and Robert Treloar},
title={A Controlled Study for Measuring Stress Induced Changes of Physiologic Tremor with a Wearable Activity Sensor},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={178-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004789701780182},
isbn={978-989-758-011-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - A Controlled Study for Measuring Stress Induced Changes of Physiologic Tremor with a Wearable Activity Sensor
SN - 978-989-758-011-6
AU - Zillmer R.
AU - Newby B.
AU - Treloar R.
PY - 2014
SP - 178
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0004789701780182