Physical human-robot interaction has the potential to be useful in a number of domains, but this will depend on how people respond to the robot’s actions. For some domains, such as healthcare, a robot is likely to initiate physical contact with a person’s body. In order to investigate how people respond to this type of interaction, we conducted an experiment with 56 people in which a robotic nu...

Two experiments tested the effect of boredom on galvanic skin potential, skin conductance, and heart rate as autonomic measures of arousal. The results support Berlyne's 1960 hypothesis that boredom increases autonomic arousal. An intelligence measure correlated positively with rated boredom on the experimental task. The subjective state of boredom was seen as resulting from an inadequate rate ...

This paper presents a new non-invasive biomedical monitoring of selected psychosomatic processes. The proposed method measures human skin conductivity using the interdigitated array (IDA) microelectrodes, which allow continual monitoring and analysis of complicated physiological, pathophysiological, and therapeutic processes. The main goal is monitoring of psycho-galvanic reflex of the human sk...

Our unpublished observation that a lateral decubitus posture influences the pattern of sweating was systematically tested by measuring galvanic skin resistance (GSR). Changes in the GSR between two electrodes placed on skin was used to quantify the degree of sweating. In the lateral posture, sweating is inhibited on the lower half and stimulated on the upper half and reversal of the lateral pos...

The objective for this study was to investigate whether the postural control adaptation during galvanic stimulation of the vestibular nerve were similar to that found during vibration stimulation to the calf muscles. A method for adaptation analysis was used to analyze the evoked changes of posture, stimulus responses and the motion dynamics. The adaptive adjustments of postural control were si...

Ambulatory skin conductance as we see it now emerging on the market with products like the Affectiva Qsensor and the Basis B1, was promoted already in 1997 by Picard and Healey [1]. Also prototype devices such as the Empatica E3, the Smartband, and the Philips DTI-2 ([3] and figure 1) typically measure skin conductance at the base of the wrist, since this is a convenient measurement position. H...

This study explores the use of machine learning and physiological signals to enhance performance based on students’ personality traits. Traditional assessment methods often yield unreliable responses, prompting need for a novel approach utilizing objective data collection through signals. Participants from Taiwanese university’s Department Electrical Engineering engaged in programming video tas...