An Experiment to Assess an Acquisition Platform and Biomedical Signal Conditioning

Diego Assis Siqueira Gois, João Paulo Andrade Lima, Marco Túlio Chella, Methanias Colaço Rodrigues Júnior

2017

Abstract

As physical computing has grown and the concept of “Do it Yourself” (DIY) increased, various open-source electronics platforms emerged, such as Arduino and Raspberry pi. Still, these platforms aren't suited for acquisition and conditioning of biomedical signals. Inspired by the DIY concept, this paper presents a framework for acquisition and conditioning of biomedical signals composed of various interconnected, interchangeable, inter-configurable and reconfigurable boards, called YouMake. Moreover, they are low cost and have good documentation, making it easy for prototyping. The experimental evaluation of the platform was performed in a group of people who used it to show the level of usability and the time spent. The results showed that there are no statistical differences between the groups “with experience” and “without experience”, and even more, that it can reliably be used for a low cost alternative for acquisition and conditioning of biomedical signals.

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Assis Siqueira Gois D., Andrade Lima J., Túlio Chella M. and Júnior M. (2017). An Experiment to Assess an Acquisition Platform and Biomedical Signal Conditioning . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-249-3, pages 75-86. DOI: 10.5220/0006293100750086


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@conference{iceis17,
author={Diego Assis Siqueira Gois and João Paulo Andrade Lima and Marco Túlio Chella and Methanias Colaço Rodrigues Júnior},
title={An Experiment to Assess an Acquisition Platform and Biomedical Signal Conditioning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={75-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006293100750086},
isbn={978-989-758-249-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - An Experiment to Assess an Acquisition Platform and Biomedical Signal Conditioning
SN - 978-989-758-249-3
AU - Assis Siqueira Gois D.
AU - Andrade Lima J.
AU - Túlio Chella M.
AU - Júnior M.
PY - 2017
SP - 75
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0006293100750086