Treat me well : affective and physiological feedback for wheelchair users

• Author(s): Postolache, Octavian ; Girão, Pedro ; Ribeiro, Mário ; Carvalho, Helder ; Catarino, André P. ; Postolache, Gabriela
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21808
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Affective computing; Physiological computing; Embedded system; E-textile; Heart rate variability
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This work reports a electrocardiograph and skin conductivity hardware architecture, based on E-textile electrodes, attached to a wheelchair for affective and physiological computing. Appropriate conditioning circuits and a microcontroller platform that performs acquisition, primary processing, and communication using Bluetooth were designed and implemented. To increase the accuracy and repeatability of the skin conductivity measuring channel, force measurement sensors were attached to the system certifying measuring contact force on the electrode level. Advanced processing including Rwave peak detector, adaptive filtering and autonomic nervous system analysis based on wavelets transform was designed and implemented on a server. A central design of affective recognition and biofeedback system is described.