Profiling Arousal in Response to Complex Stimuli using Biosignals

Felix Putze, Dominic Heger, Markus Müller, Christian Waldkirch, Yves Chassein, Ivana Kajic, Tanja Schultz

2013

Abstract

We investigate the use of biosignals (blood volume pressure and electrodermal activity) for person-independent profiling of arousal responses to complex, long-term stimuli. We report the design of a user study with 14 subjects to elicitate affective responses with films of different genres. We present a detailed analysis of the recorded signals and show that it is possible extract information on the differences between films and within each film from biosignals. We use this information to automatically discriminate four film classes in a person-independent fashion with an accuracy of up to 97.8%.

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Putze F., Heger D., Müller M., Waldkirch C., Chassein Y., Kajic I. and Schultz T. (2013). Profiling Arousal in Response to Complex Stimuli using Biosignals . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-36-5, pages 347-350. DOI: 10.5220/0004249203470350


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals13,
author={Felix Putze and Dominic Heger and Markus Müller and Christian Waldkirch and Yves Chassein and Ivana Kajic and Tanja Schultz},
title={Profiling Arousal in Response to Complex Stimuli using Biosignals},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={347-350},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004249203470350},
isbn={978-989-8565-36-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - Profiling Arousal in Response to Complex Stimuli using Biosignals
SN - 978-989-8565-36-5
AU - Putze F.
AU - Heger D.
AU - Müller M.
AU - Waldkirch C.
AU - Chassein Y.
AU - Kajic I.
AU - Schultz T.
PY - 2013
SP - 347
EP - 350
DO - 10.5220/0004249203470350