Discriminating Stress From Cognitive Load Using a Wearable EDA Device

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 410 - 417
• Main Authors: Setz, C., Arnrich, B., Schumm, J., La Marca, R., Troster, G., Ehlert, U.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.03.2010
• Subjects: Adult; Arithmetic; Biomedical monitoring; Cognition - physiology; Cognitive load; Costs; Devices; electrodermal activity (EDA); Electrodiagnosis - instrumentation; Electrodiagnosis - methods; Electronic design automation and methodology; Employment; Galvanic Skin Response; Human factors; Humans; Information systems; Laboratories; Male; Monitoring, Ambulatory - instrumentation; Monitoring, Ambulatory - methods; Monitors; Occupational stress; Pattern Recognition, Automated - methods; personal health systems (PHSs); Phases; Precision Medicine - instrumentation; Precision Medicine - methods; Psychology; Reproducibility of Results; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Strategy; Stress measurement; stress recognition; Stress, Psychological - physiopathology; Stresses; Telemetry; Wearable; Workplaces

The inferred cost of work-related stress call for prevention strategies that aim at detecting early warning signs at the workplace. This paper goes one step towards the goal of developing a personal health system for detecting stress. We analyze the discriminative power of electrodermal activity (ED...