• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.11
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• pp.206-216
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• 2013

The emotion plays a critical role in human's daily life including learning, action, decision and communication. In this paper, emotion discrimination classifier is designed to reduce system complexity through reduced selection of dominant features from biosignals. The photoplethysmography(PPG), skin temperature, skin conductance, fontal and parietal electroencephalography(EEG) signals were measured during 4 types of movie watching associated with the induction of neutral, sad, fear joy emotions. The genetic algorithm with support vector machine(SVM) based fitness function was designed to determine dominant features among 24 parameters extracted from measured biosignals. It shows maximum classification accuracy of 96.4%, which is 17% higher than that of SVM alone. The minimum error features selected are the mean and NN50 of heart rate variability from PPG signal, the mean of PPG induced pulse transit time, the mean of skin resistance, and ${\delta}$ and ${\beta}$ frequency band powers of parietal EEG. The combination of parietal EEG, PPG, and skin resistance is recommendable in high accuracy instrumentation, while the combinational use of PPG and skin conductance(79% accuracy) is affordable in simplified instrumentation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.71-78
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 아동 성격검사지(Personality Inventory for Children: PIC)의 하위척도 중의 하나인 비행척도 점수가 높은 아동과 낮은 아동의 안정상태 시의 생리반응 특성을 밝히고, 다양한 정서 유발조건에서의 생리반응 변화의 특성을 규명하고자 하였다. 87명의 아동이 실험에 참여하였으며, 아동의 연령범위는 7∼9세였다. 안정상태와 각 정서(기쁨, 분노, 슬픔, 스트레스)를 유발하는 동안에 심전도(Electrocardiogram: ECG)와 피부전기활동(Electrodermal activity: EDA)을 측정하였다. 각 정서 유발자극이 제시된 후, 아동들은 자신이 느낀 정서를 보고하였다. 한국판 아동용 성격검사지에 포함되어 있는 비행척도 문항을 이용해 아동의 비행점수를 계산하였으며, 비행척도 점수가 높은 아동과 낮은 아동을 각각 임의로 12명씩 선정하였다 비행척도 점수가 높은 아동은 비행척도 점수가 낮은 아동에 비해 안정상태에서 피부전도수준(Skin conductance level: SCL)과 심장박동률(Heart rate: HR)이 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 정서를 유발하는 조건에서도 비행척도 점수가 높은 아동은 비행척도 점수가 낮은 아동에 비해 피부전도수준 변화와 심박률 변화가 적었다.

• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.107-119
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• 1997

Objectives: The psychophysiologic response pattern between healthy subjects and patients with generalized anxiety disorder, and the relationship among anxiety rating scales and those patterns in patients were examined. Methods: Twenty-three patients with generalized anxiety disorder(AD) and 23 healthy subjects were evaluated by Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety(HRSA) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory before baseline stressful tasks. Subjective Units of Distress were evaluated just before baseline period, immediately after stressful tasks, at the end of the entire procedure, and psychophysiologic measures, i.e., skin temperature(ST), electromyographic activity(EMG), heart rate(HR), electrodermal response(EDR) during baseline & rest and during two psychologically stressful tasks (mental arithmetic, TM; talk about a stressful event, TT) were also evaluated. Results: 1) AD group showed significantly higher EMG level during rest after stressful tasks and higher HR level during all period except TM compared to control group. 2) AD group showed lower change in the startle response(SR) of ST, in the SR & the recovery response(RR) of EMG during TM, and in the RR of EDR immediately after TM than control group. AD group showed that the RR of EDR was significantly lower than the SR during stressful tasks. 3) We found that there was significantly negative correlation between state anxiety and the RR of EDR after TT in AD group. We also found that there were significantly positive correlations between HRSA score and the SRs of EDR during stressful tasks, and between state anxiety and the SR of EDR during TT. Conclusion: Our results suggest that patients with generalized anxiety disorder show higher autonomic arousal than healthy subjects and decreased physiologic flexibility or reduced autonomic flexibility.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2B
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• pp.232-243
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• 2010

In this paper, various physiological signals of humans were measured and analyzed to inference their psychological state and biological information, and Bio-Signal Context aware system (BSC), which recognizes the current context of its users as well as the information of exterior environment and offers the service appropriate for them, was designed and implemented. The BSC extracts and analyzes the features from bio-signals, such as the measured electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), and galvanic skin response (GSR), with its different sensors, has the input of the analyzed results, and discriminates four psychological states of rest, concentration, tension and melancholy. In addition to the results of the discriminated psychological states, the information of biological condition analyzed from the user's bio-signals, for example, heart rate variability (HRV), Galvanic skin response (GSR) and body temperature, and the information of external environment related to the user's are collected to offer the service fit for the user's present biological condition by inferring and recognizing the user's present situation.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.57-64
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• 2019

Anger is the most common emotional trigger causing relapses in individuals with alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The present study intended to investigate the autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses induced by anger in individuals with AUDs. The participants in this study included twelve individuals with AUDs and 14 non-frequent drinkers. Anger was induced in the participants via a 120-second film clip. Before the presentation of this audio-visual stimulus, the ANS responses of the participants were measured for 60 seconds to ascertain their resting state. Subsequently, the participants' ANS responses were measured again for 120 seconds when they were in an emotional state during the presentation of the clip. After the ANS measurements were taken, participants were asked to rate the type of emotion they had experienced as they viewed the film and to report its intensity. The results indicated that the levels of anger experienced by the AUD group were not significantly different from the emotion registered by the control group. However, the ANS responses induced in AUD participants when they were in an emotional state showed blunted skin conductance levels (SCL) and skin conductance responses (SCR) compared to the control group participants. Individuals with AUDs evinced lower emotional arousal than the participants of the control group. These results can help clinicians understand the psychological and physiological responses of individuals with AUDs to anger in order to design effective interventions that would reduce chances of anger and relapse.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.54-59
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• 2001

본 연구는 청각적 감성을 만족시키는 의류소재의 개발을 위해, 직물 마찰음에 대한 인간의 감서을 생리반응측정과 심리적·주관적 평가를 통해 파악하고, 직물 마찰음이 갖는 음향특성과의 관련성을 고찰하였다. 이를 위해 직물 마찰음의 음향특성을 분석하고, 직물 마찰음에 대한 감각·감성 표현어(부드러움, 시끄러움, 유쾌함, 날카로움, 맑음, 거침, 높음)를 이용하여 주관적 평가를 실시하였으며, 생리적 반응으로서의 뇌파 및 혈류량, 심박변화율, 피부전도수준 등을 측정하였다. 주관적 감각·감성은 대부분 직물 소리의 크기와 관련이 깊은 것으로 나타나, loudness(Z)와 총음압 LPT가 증가할수록 시끄럽고 거칠며 딱딱하고 불쾌하며 탁하다고 지각하였다. 생리적 반응과 관련하여서는, 부드럽고 조용하며 맑다고 지각할수록 slow alpha파가 증가하였고, 유쾌하고 매끄럽다고 평가할수록 혈류량은 증가하였다. 또한, 높다고 지각하는 소리에 대한 LF/HF는 증가하였다. 마찰음의 음향특성이 생리적 반응에 미치는 영향으로서, LPT가 혈류량의 감소에, Loudness(Z)가 피부전도수준의 증가에 각각 영향을 미치며, sharpness(Z)가 높고 ΔL이 작을수록 LF/HF는 증가하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.43-52
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• 1999

정서는 생리적 반응을 수반하는 주관적인 경험이다. 뇌파와 자율신경계 반응의 차이에 의한 기본정서 구분 연구는 보고된 바가 없다. 본 연구에서는 1) 여섯 기본정서를 뚜렷하게 유발하는 정서자극을 선정하고, 이를 사용하여 2) 기본정서를 구분할 수 있는 심리생리적 복합 지표 모델을 개발하고자 하였다. 국제정서사진체계에서 여섯 기본정서 (행복, 슬픔, 분노, 혐오, 공포, 놀람) 각각을 신뢰롭게 유발하는 여섯 쌍의 슬라이드를 선택하였다. 슬라이드 제시에 의하여 유발되는 뇌파, 심전도, 호흡, 피부전기반응을 기록하여 분석/비교하였다. 주요결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 뇌파의 상태적 출현량, 심박률, 호흡률, 피부전도반응은 안정상태와 정서상태간의 비교에서 유의미한 차이가 나타났다. 둘째, 뇌파분석결과에서는 theta (F4, 01), slow alpha (F3, F4), fast alpha (O2), fast beta (F4, O2)파의 상대적 출현량 변화값이 일부 정서들간에 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 셋째, 자율신경계 분석결과에서는 심박률, 호흡률, 피부전도반응이 일부 정서들간에 유의미한 차이를 보여주었다. 이들 결과를 토대로 기본정서를 특정적으로 구분할 수 있는 심리생리적 복합 지표 모델을 구성하였다. 네 기본정서 (공포, 혐오, 슬픔, 분노)는 뇌파와 자율신경계 반응패턴에 의한 구분이 가능하였으나, 행복과 놀람은 본 연구에서 사용한 심리생리지표에 의한 최종 구분이 불가능하였다. 여섯 기본정서를 모두 구분할 수 있는 적절한 지표를 찾아내는 후속연구가 필요하다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.147-152
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• 2015

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.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.273-280
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• 2007

The study is to examine the psychophysiological responses evoked by negative emotions(fear and disgust) in children. 47 children(11-13 years old, 23 boys) participated in the study. While the children were experiencing fear or disgust emotion induced by audio-visual film clips, ECG, EDA, PPG and SKT are measured. Emotion assessment scale was used to confirm that emotions elicited by the film clips were significantly noticeable, which was measured self-report. The results turned out to be 100% and 89.4% of appropriate for fear and disgust emotions, respectively. Emotional intensity the children had experienced was rated as 4.05, 4.07 on 1-5 scale based on effectiveness of measurement of fear and disgust emotion. ANS reponses by fear and disgust were significantly between the resting state and emotional state induced. The result obtained from the fear emotion showed significant increases in SCL, NSCR, HR, RSA, RESP and HF. There was a significant difference in SCL and NSCR between the two emotions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.186-189
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 2종류의 색온도(4000 K, 2700 K)조건 하에서 작업자의 피로도를 평가하기 위하여 피험자에게 검색작업을 부가하고 주관평가 및 생리신호를 측정하였다. 주관평가는 ME(Magnitude Estimation)법의 설문지를 사용했으며, 생리신호는 ECG, 맥파, 피부전도도, 피부온도, 호흡, 뇌파를 측정하여 그중 ECG신호를 분석하였다. ECG신호 파라미터로서 IBI, BPM, 평균 BPM, LF/HF, CSI, CVI, CV-RR를 분석한 결과, 특히 CSI, CVI, CV-RR가 피로도와 상관관계가 높았다.