Background and objectives: Wearable technologies have added completely new and fast
emerging tools to the popular field of personal gadgets. Aside from being fashionable and …

This review investigates the effects of psychological stress on the human body measured
through biosignals. When a potentially threatening stimulus is perceived, a cascade of …

Affect recognition aims to detect a person's affective state based on observables, with the
goal to eg improve human-computer interaction. Long-term stress is known to have severe …

The electrodermal activity (EDA) signal is an electrical manifestation of the sympathetic
innervation of the sweat glands. EDA has a history in psychophysiological (including …

Stress has become a significant cause for many diseases in the modern society. Recently,
smartphones, smartwatches and smart wrist-bands have become an integral part of our lives …

Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few
decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal …

Emotions play a critical role in our daily lives, so the understanding and recognition of
emotional responses is crucial for human research. Affective computing research has mostly …

A sample of 33 experiments was extracted from the Web-of-Science database over a 5-year
period (2016–2020) that used physiological measures to measure intrinsic cognitive load …

Background Wearable and mobile devices that capture multimodal data have the potential
to identify risk factors for high stress and poor mental health and to provide information to …

Wearable devices have recently received considerable interest due to their great promise for
a plethora of applications. Increased research efforts are oriented towards a non-invasive …