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A Preliminary Analysis of the Physiological Response Generated by Negative Thoughts

Authors:
Nagore Sagastibeltza
Ainhoa Yera
Asier Salazar-Ramirez
Raquel Martinez
Javier Muguerza

Keywords: Affective computing; Emotions; ECG; GSR; Negative thoughts

Abstract:
Positive and negative emotions have a great impact on the human organism. The main purpose of this work is to analyze the physiological effects of negative thoughts using affective computing techniques. With this aim, we carried out an experiment in which participants had to recall past negative experiences while their physiological signals were being collected. Then, using two algorithms based on biosignal analysis, we assessed their levels of stress and relaxation at each time. According to the results, 100% of the participants who had negative thoughts produced a physiological stress response. This is promising, since it could enable affective computing based systems to adapt to the emotional state of the users through the real-time monitoring of the physiological signals of the human body.

Pages: 15 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: October 18, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-829-7

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020