A wearable sensor for unobtrusive, long-term assessment of electrodermal activity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1243-1252

  Poh, Ming Zher ^a,b   Swenson, Nicholas C ^b   Picard, Rosalind W ^b  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodermal activity (EDA); Forearm; Galvanic skin response; Skin conductance; Sweat; Sympathetic nervous system; Wearable sensors; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

SENSORS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND PALM; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL STRESS; SENSOR; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77951260582     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038487     Document Type: Article

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