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Cardiac Telemerty for Stress Assessment

Authors:
Anna Polevaia
Sergey Parin
Sofia Polevaia
Valeriia Demareva

Keywords: stress; heart rate variability; autonomic nervous system; wireless technology

Abstract:
The use of stress assessment is receiving increasing attention. However, assessment approaches and methods this far are limited to static contexts. Scholars have raised questions concerning the validity of laboratory measurement results for stress detection in everyday life. The paper presents the results of developing a new method of stress assessment in real-life scenarios. This method is based on the noninvasive continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring. It is shown that the results obtained in the laboratory stress-related contexts have poor correlation with the results of the similar real-life scenarios. In this connection, the principal requirements for stress monitoring solutions are listed, and the architecture of the cardiac telemetry complex for continuous stress measurement is described. Drawing on experimental data over a 5-year period, we identify a stress-specific context-invariant HRV pattern. The theoretical and application perspectives for cardiac telemetry are presented for discussion. The progress achieved in the research and the ways for further investigation are outlined in the conclusion.

Pages: 117 to 126

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

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ISSN: 1942-2660