Design and realization of a portable data logger for physiological sensing

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1289-1295

  Luharuka, Rajesh ^a   Gao, Robert X ^a   Krishnamurty, Sundar ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Data logger; Galvanic skin response (GSR); Microcontroller; Physiological sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOSENSORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

AUTISM; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGICAL SENSING; PORTABLE DATA LOGGER;

MICROCONTROLLERS;

EID: 0141885186     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.816808     Document Type: Article

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