Occasionally, I am asked to provide articles about my research with Electrodermal Activity. The following three articles are must reads for my work.
Dr. Rosalind Picard describes her view for future work measuring emotional states. In her article, she mentions my work with Occupational Therapists.
Picard, R.W., "Emotion research by the people, for the people," Emotion Review, Volume 2, Issue 3 (July 2010)
For a hardware description of the tool we use to measure Electodemral activity refer to:
Fletcher, R., Dobson, K., Goodwin, M.S., Eydgahi, H., Wilder-Smith, O., Fernholz, D., Kuboyama, Y., Hedman, E., Poh, M.Z., Picard, R.W., "iCalm: Wearable Sensor and Network Architecture for Wirelessly Communicating and Logging Autonomic Activity," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol.14, no.2, pp.215-223, March 2010. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2038692
This article describes the difference between measuring EDA on the wrist compared to the fingers.
Poh, M.Z., Swenson, N.C., Picard, R.W., "A Wearable Sensor for Unobtrusive, Long-term Assessment of Electrodermal Activity," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.57, no.5, pp.1243-1252, May 2010. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2038487
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Masters Thesis: IN‐SITU MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY DURING OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
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(Summer 2009- Spring 2010)
(Summer 2009- Spring 2010)
How could knowing a child’s electrodermal activity (EDA) during therapy change occupational therapy practices? As a joint project between the MIT Media Lab and the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation, we measured the EDA responses of 22 children participating in occupational therapy for 77 hours. We saw children lying in a ball pit and their EDA correspondingly decreasing; we saw children’s EDA rapidly increase while they were swinging; and we saw many other patterns of responses from different therapeutic activities. Could we show how different guided activities changed children’s arousal with a statistical test? Analysis suggests that many factors play a role in changing children’s EDA, and these factors could not all be taken into account with our low sample size – making any statistical analysis inconclusive. As more tools begin to measure physiological data over longer periods of time, in less controlled settings, we should not forget to build a base understanding at the individual case level.
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