Psychophysiological Body Activation Characteristics in Daily Routines

Author

Kusserow, Martin ; Amft, Oliver ; Tröster, Gerhard

Author_Institution

Wearable Comput. Lab., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

4-7 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

156

Abstract

We present a novel approach to analyse and model psycho-physiological body activation patterns that emerge from physical and mental activity during daily routines. We analyse our approach on a 62 h dataset of daily routine recordings using acceleration and heart rate sensors. We present a descriptive analysis of psycho-physiological activations during the routines using a novel visualisation technique. Our results show that daily routines exhibit different psycho-physiological body activation characteristics. While physically-related routines are correlated with heart activity, mentally-related routines show activation patterns without physical activity.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomechanics; cardiology; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; physiological models; acceleration; daily routines; heart rate sensors; mental activity; physical activity; psychophysiological body activation; visualisation technique; Acceleration; Biomedical monitoring; Heart rate; Pattern analysis; Psychology; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Signal processing; Visualization; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors; BodyANT; Psychophysiological activation; daily routines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable Computers, 2009. ISWC '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Linz

ISSN

1550-4816

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3779-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWC.2009.10

Filename

5254667