Towards Continuous Monitoring of Well-Being

Anneloes Meijer; Lukas Arts; Randy Gomez; Egon van den Broek

doi:10.3233/AISE230032

Towards Continuous Monitoring of Well-Being

Anneloes Meijer^*
, Lukas Arts
, Randy Gomez
, Egon van den Broek

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

When linked to wearable biosensors, Intelligent Environments could play a pivotal role in continuously monitoring and securing people’s well-being.We explored the value of one such biosensor that records Electrodermal Activity (EDA) by assessing its correlation with participants’ simultaneously, continuously, self-reported arousal. EDA’s frequency and amplitude of ‘non-speciﬁc’ SkinConductance Responses in low, mid to high, or high levels of arousal were deter-mined. When participants were in mid/high and high arousal situations, self-reports showed signiﬁcant correlations (p<.001) with both EDA characteristics. With low arousal, no signiﬁcant correlations were found. So, in cases of elevated stress, EDA shows the potential of being a reliable signal stress and, hence, also monitor of people’s well-being over time. Follow-up studies should further investigate and validate the utility of EDA monitoring as part of a comprehensive health monitoring strategy and its effectiveness in enhancing well-being.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Workshop Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2023)
Editors	Girish Bekaroo, Somaya Ben Allouch, Massimo Mecella
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	196-205
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-64368-405-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-64368-404-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/AISE230032
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Publisher	IOS Press
Volume	32
ISSN (Print)	1875-4163
ISSN (Electronic)	1875-4171

Funding

We thank our partners, members from the HONDA project between the Honda Research Institute in Japan and Utrecht University in the Netherlands for making this research possible. Lukas P.A. Arts and Egon L. van den Broek have received funding for this work from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 952095, the IM-TWIN project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

Keywords

Intelligent Environments
well-being
electrodermal activity
Continuous monitoring
stress
Biosensors

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Electrodermal activity: A continuous monitor of well-being
Meijer, A. L., Arts, L. P. A., Gomez, R. & van den Broek, E. L., 18 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Smart Cities and Society. 2, 4, p. 193-207 15 p.
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Towards Continuous Monitoring of Well-Being. / Meijer, Anneloes ; Arts, Lukas; Gomez, Randy et al.
Workshop Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2023). ed. / Girish Bekaroo; Somaya Ben Allouch; Massimo Mecella. IOS Press, 2023. p. 196-205 (Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments; Vol. 32).

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