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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2015.39.2.147

Capacitive Skin Piloerection Sensors for Human Emotional State Cognition  

Kim, Jaemin (Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST)
Seo, Dae Geon (Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST)
Cho, Young-Ho (Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.39, no.2, 2015 , pp. 147-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
We designed, fabricated, and tested the capacitive microsensors for skin piloerection monitoring. The performance of the skin piloerection monitoring sensor was characterized using the artificial bump, representing human skin goosebump; thus, resulting in the sensitivity of $-0.00252%/{\mu}m$ and the nonlinearity of 25.9 % for the artificial goosebump deformation in the range of $0{\sim}326{\mu}m$. We also verified two successive human skin piloerection having 3.5 s duration on the subject's dorsal forearms, thus resulting in the capacitance change of -6.2 fF and -9.2 fF compared to the initial condition, corresponding to the piloerection intensity of $145{\mu}m$ and $194{\mu}m$, respectively. It was demonstrated experimentally that the proposed sensor is capable to measure the human skin piloerection objectively and quantitatively, thereby suggesting the quantitative evaluation method of the qualitative human emotional state for cognitive human-machine interfaces applications.
Keywords
Piloerection; Capacitive Sensor; Flexible Sensor;
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