Cardiac and respiration activity measured via wearable sensors offered better biomarkers for assessing combatant stress than speech, galvanic skin response, or skin temperature.
Do cardiac and respiration activity measured via wearable systems provide better biomarkers for real-time mental stress assessment in combatants compared to speech, galvanic skin response, or skin temperature?
Wearable sensors measuring cardiac and respiratory activity provide superior real-time mental stress assessment in combatants compared to speech or skin-based metrics.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense, through its Future Combatant program, has sought to develop technology aids with the aim of extending combatants' operational capabilities. Within this framework the ATREC project funded by the "Coincidente" program aims at analyzing diverse biometrics to assess by real time monitoring the stress levels of combatants. This project combines multidisciplinary disciplines and fields, including wearable instrumentation, textile technology, signal processing, pattern recognition and psychological analysis of the obtained information. In this work the ATREC project is described, including the different execution phases, the wearable biomedical measurement systems, the experimental setup, the biomedical signal analysis and speech processing performed. The preliminary results obtained from the data analysis collected during the first phase of the project are presented, indicating the good classification performance exhibited when using features obtained from electrocardiographic recordings and electrical bioimpedance measurements from the thorax. These results suggest that cardiac and respiration activity offer better biomarkers for assessment of stress than speech, galvanic skin response or skin temperature when recorded with wearable biomedical measurement systems.
Seoane et al. (Tue,) conducted a other in Mental stress. Wearable biomedical measurement systems (electrocardiographic and electrical bioimpedance) vs. Speech, galvanic skin response, or skin temperature was evaluated on Classification performance for stress assessment. Cardiac and respiration activity measured via wearable sensors offered better biomarkers for assessing combatant stress than speech, galvanic skin response, or skin temperature.