1. Pelagia noctiluca responds to galvanic stimulation by a luminescent glow at the anode. If placed near the cathode a secondary glow occurs also on the cathodal side. 2. The luminescent slime of Pelagia when subjected to the galvanic current glows around the cathode. This is referred partly to the movement of hydrogen bubbles, but in the main to the alkali formed at the cathode. 3. The cause o...

he emerging discipline of Affective Computing pursues the development of computers that could interact with their users taking their affective states into account. For example, if a computer could detect when its user is experiencing stress, it could change the colors and sounds of its user interface to try to calm him/her down. Similarly, the pace of instruction in a computer-based training sy...

Introduction To extract and combine information from different modalities, fusion techniques are commonly applied to promote system performance. In this study, we aimed to examine the effectiveness of fusion techniques in emotion recognition. Materials and Methods Electrocardiogram (ECG) and galvanic skin responses (GSR) of 11 healthy female students (mean age: 22.73±1.68 years) were collected ...

In this paper, we present a mobile fitness proof-of-concept demonstrator that includes several sensors for measuring physiological issues in a human body, i.e., heart rate meter, 3-axis accelerometer for step counter and energy consumption, and bioresistance meter for fat percentage, body water content and galvanic skin response. In addition, we describe user perceptions representing various di...

Digital personal lifelogs (PLs) enable many artifacts from a person’s life to be automatically stored in a digital archive. These data sets can contain a wealth of potentially valuable information describing events from an individual’s life. A key challenge for lifelog technologies is how to develop scenarios and applications which enable people to interact with these vast heterogeneous data so...

We present ASCERTAIN– a multimodal databaASe for impliCit pERsonaliTy and Affect recognitIoN using commercial physiological sensors. To our knowledge, ASCERTAIN is the first database to connect personality traits and emotional states via physiological responses. ASCERTAIN contains big-five personality scales and emotional self-ratings of 58 users along with their Electroencephalogram (EEG), Ele...