Quantization of mental stress using various physiological markers
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Department of Biomedical Signal Processing and Instrumentation, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Department of Instrumentation and Technology, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Bioengineering, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction
- Keywords
- Electrocardiography, Stress assessment, induced mental activity, mental stress, reaction time, heart rate variability, Photoplethysmography
- Copyright
- © 2018 Apoorvagiri et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Quantization of mental stress using various physiological markers. PeerJ Preprints 6:e777v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.777v3
Abstract
The aim of this study is to quantize mental stress by integrating different physiological markers like reaction time, photoplethysmograph (PPG), heart rate variability (HRV) and subjective markers like questionnaire. The study included 10 subjects of age between 22 and 26 years. Study materials include the results of PSS questionnaire, simple reaction time, PPG data, HRV data during a stress inducing stroop test. The study suggests that mental stress can be quantized when stress is induced acquisitively and more accurate quantification of stress can be achieved by integrating many physiological parameters.
Author Comment
This is the updated version of the preprint. Sondekere Tippeswamy Veerabhadrappa has been added to the Acknowledgment section.