A study on the effect of emotion evoking videos on physiological signals

Author

Smitha, K.G. ; Robinson, Neethu ; Vinod, A.P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The power of the music in evoking physical reactions has been well studied in literature for healthy and ill subjects. In this study we implemented a plethysmogragh data-acquisition system and analyzed the effect of emotion-evoking videos with audio and without audio on heart rate and average blood flow power. Our experiments showed that the audio plays the key role in variation of heart rate and average blood power with a high significance value (p=4.37×10^-5) when compared to visual without audio. The research can be extended further to the development of smart software/applications that predicts user-specific emotion-evoking videos.

Keywords

cardiology; computer software; haemodynamics; medical signal processing; plethysmography; video signal processing; average blood flow power; average blood power; emotion evoking video effect; heart rate; heart rate variation; literature; physical reactions; physiological signals; plethysmogragh data-acquisition system; smart software-applications; user-specific emotion-evoking videos; Blood; Blood flow; Heart rate; Music; Videos; Heart rate; Pulse plethysmograph; average power of blood flow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Combiatore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSyst.2014.6926203

Filename

6926203