• DocumentCode
    3667865
  • Title

    Initial result of body earthing on student stress performance

  • Author

    Mahfuzah Mustafa;Sia Kee Huong;Norizam Sulaiman;Rosdiyana Samad;Nor Rul Hasma Abdullah;Nasrul Salim Pakheri;Mohd Nasir Taib

  • Author_Institution
    Faculty of Electrical &
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    129
  • Lastpage
    133
  • Abstract
    The body earthing technique is a kind of method that can neutralize our positive charge and negative charge in our body by connecting to the earth. It is believed that body earthing gives a positive effect on human body. There is a possibility that EEG signals can verify the positive effect of body earthing. The experiment of body earthing is done by attaching the patched kit to the hand of the subjects. Then, low voltage of multimeter was used to measure the body voltage of the subjects and EEG signals were collected. After that, the collected EEG data were processed by Band-pass filter in MATLAB to filter out the Alpha and Beta frequency bands separately. The threshold of signal amplitude was set to -100 μV to 100 μV in order to remove the noise of the signals. Next, the Power Spectral Density (PSD) graphs of each EEG signals were plotted and the maximum points of each signal were recorded. Then the peak points were plotted in a histogram to see the changes of the Alpha and Beta band signals. Lastly, the results of before the body earthed and after body earthed were compared through the histogram plotted. It is observed that, before the body earthed, the Alpha-band is low, while the Beta-band is high. Then after body earthed, the Alpha band increased, while the Beta band are decreased.
  • Keywords
    "Electroencephalography","Stress","Grounding","Electrodes","Histograms","Band-pass filters","Earth"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    BioSignal Analysis, Processing and Systems (ICBAPS), 2015 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICBAPS.2015.7292232
  • Filename
    7292232