The Effect of Demanding Mental Tasks on Electrodermal Activity and Heart Rate During Physical Activity: A Pilot Study

This paper presents the development of a virtual rehabilitation game and mental load with different difficulty blocks. The was controlled body tracking physiological signals - acrlong ECG EDA were recorded throughout session. Several parameters HR (HR), HRV (HRV), SCL (SCL), SCR (SCR), energy expenditure...- extracted from these to check influence on them. Mental found affect variation in kinetic power instantaneous heart rate; Support Vector Machine linear kernel trained two variables an 82.3% accuracy rate obtained. Furthermore, reflected number errors made by volunteers, selection time rounds game.