Emotion-aware consumer products require reliable, short-term emotion assessment (i.e., unobtrusive, robust, and lacking calibration). To explore the feasibility of this, an experiment was conducted where the galvanic skin response (GSR) and three electromyography (EMG) signals (frontalis, corrugator supercilii, and zygomaticus major) were recorded on 24 participants who watched eight 2-min emot...

Functional infrared thermal imaging (fITI) is considered a promising method to measure emotional autonomic responses through facial cutaneous thermal variations. However, the facial thermal response to emotions still needs to be investigated within the framework of the dimensional approach to emotions. The main aim of this study was to assess how the facial thermal variations index the emotiona...

In this experiment musical scores were added to the soundtrack of an industrial safety film that has often been used as a stressful stimulus in psychophysiological research. Two musical scores were composed in accordance with contemporary film scoring techniques in an attempt to increase and decrease the stressfulness ofthe film. Subjects viewed one ofthree versions of the film: (a) the film wi...

Ten tension headache sufferers (TH) were compared with ten anxious neurotics (AN) and ten normal subjects in terms of electrodermal responses habituation (RH). TH sufferers showed less impaired RH than AN group, the normals showed least impairment. Moreover, it was evident that phasic elevation of electrodermal responses, rather than tonic measure, was a better indicator of individual differenc...

Test-retest stability of electrodermal (EDA) variables indexing both general autonomic arousal (e.g., skin conductance level, number of nonspecific skin conductance responses) and attention to external stimuli (e.g., number of skin conductance orienting responses, electrodermal responder/nonresponder status) was assessed in 71 young, recent-onset schizophrenia patients and 36 demographically ma...

The asymmetry of autonomic arousal for potential losses and gains was assessed by the galvanic skin response (GSR) of participants playing classic and inverted versions of the Monty Hall problem (MHP). In both versions, the prize remained the same (a pen valued at £10 for the right answer), but in the modified version, prizes were received prior to choosing the door. Both experimental groups sh...

The performance of 40 neurotic female patients on finger withdrawal and GSR conditioning to shock was correlated with several personality and objective measures of drive level and cortical inhibition. All correlations between conditioning indices for the 2 responses were positive and significant (p < .05) for this group. The correlations of the drive measures with both conditioned responses wer...

the aim of this research was to investigate the ability of arousal control in male and female athletes using mental imagery and biofeedback methods. participants were 30 male and female athlete students of tehran university (mean aged 23) who were assigned into two homogeneous groups based on vividness of movement imagery questionnaire 2. participants were given acoustic biofeedback during thre...

Accurately measuring the audience response during a performance is a difficult task. This is particularly the case for connected performances. In this paper, we staged a connected performance in which a remote audience enjoyed the performance in real-time. Both objective (galvanic skin response and behaviours) and subjective (interviews) responses from the live and remote audience members were ...