Design considerations of a wearable electronic-skin for mental health and wellness: balancing biosignals and human factors

Khan, Yasser; Ml, Mauriello; Nowruzi, Parsa; Motani, Akshara; G, Hon; Vitale, Nicholas; Li, Jian; J, Kim; Foudeh, Amir M.; Duvio, Dalton; E, Shols; Chesnut, Megan; Landay, James A.; Liphardt, Jan; Williams, Leanne M.; Kd, Sudheimer; Murmann, Boris; Bao, Zhenan; Pe, Paredes

doi:10.1101/2021.01.20.427496

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“…There are also risks of stigmatization, particularly for wearers with certain diseases. One way to address these issues is to conduct comprehensive user studies to identify the optimal body locations to place sensors, with a balance between data collection quality and user preferences . Alternatively, developing transparent, ultrathin, and invisible sensors would reduce the risk of stigmatization.…”

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“…One way to address these issues is to conduct comprehensive user studies to identify the optimal body locations to place sensors, with a balance between data collection quality and user preferences. 958 Alternatively, developing transparent, ultrathin, and invisible sensors would reduce the risk of stigmatization. Every stakeholder within the field of on-body sensors has a responsibility to address fears, preconceptions, and misconceptions.…”

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Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

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Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are developed to overcome the limitations of conventional rigid counterparts. Despite rapid advancement in bench-side research over the last decade, the market adoption of flexible sensors remains limited. To ease and to expedite their deployment, here, we identify bottlenecks hindering the maturation of flexible sensors and propose promising solutions. We first analyze challenges in achieving satisfactory sensing performance for real-world applications and then summarize issues in compatible sensor-biology interfaces, followed by brief discussions on powering and connecting sensor networks. Issues en route to commercialization and for sustainable growth of the sector are also analyzed, highlighting environmental concerns and emphasizing nontechnical issues such as business, regulatory, and ethical considerations. Additionally, we look at future intelligent flexible sensors. In proposing a comprehensive roadmap, we hope to steer research efforts towards common goals and to guide coordinated development strategies from disparate communities. Through such collaborative efforts, scientific breakthroughs can be made sooner and capitalized for the betterment of humanity.

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“…The vibrotactile motors were tested on the upper arm and forearm [23], also keeping in mind acceptability of social touching on the body [54]. Furthermore, whereas we initially wanted the visual display to be mounted on the chest (Fig.…”

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BreatheWithMe: Exploring Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Social Breath Awareness during Colocated, Collaborative Tasks

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“…In conjunction with wearable smart devices, SC data can alert patients, friends, family members, or nearby individuals. Such devices have the potential to prevent and alleviate mental breakdowns [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] . Increased stress and pain levels are associated with a higher risk of suicide, as noted in [22] .…”

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Sparse Multichannel Decomposition of Electrodermal Activity With Physiological Priors

Alam,

Amin,

Faghih

2023

IEEE Open J. Eng. Med. Biol.

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Goal: Inferring autonomous nervous system (ANS) activity is a challenging issue and has critical applications in stress regulation. Sweat secretions caused by ANS activity influence the electrical conductance of the skin. Therefore, the variations in skin conductance (SC) measurements reflect the sudomotor nerve activity (SMNA) and can be used to infer the underlying ANS activity. These variations are strongly correlated with emotional arousal as well as thermoregulation. However, accurately recovering ANS activity and the corresponding state-space system from a single channel signal is difficult due to artifacts introduced by measurement noise. To minimize the impact of noise on inferring ANS activity, we utilize multiple channels of SC data. Methods: We model skin conductance using a second-order differential equation incorporating a time-shifted sparse impulse train input in combination with independent cubic basis spline functions. Finally, we develop a block coordinate descent method for SC signal decomposition by employing a generalized cross-validation sparse recovery approach while including physiological priors. Results: We analyze the experimental data to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. We demonstrate its capacity to recover the ANS activations, the underlying physiological system parameters, and both tonic and phasic components. Finally, we present an overview of the algorithm's comparative performance under varying conditions and configurations to substantiate its ability to accurately model ANS activity. Our results show that our algorithm performs better in terms of multiple metrics like noise performance, AUC score, the goodness of fit of reconstructed signal, and lower missing impulses compared with the single channel decomposition approach. Conclusion: In this study, we highlight the challenges and benefits of concurrent decomposition and deconvolution of multichannel SC signals.

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Design considerations of a wearable electronic-skin for mental health and wellness: balancing biosignals and human factors

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Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

BreatheWithMe: Exploring Visual and Vibrotactile Displays for Social Breath Awareness during Colocated, Collaborative Tasks

Sparse Multichannel Decomposition of Electrodermal Activity With Physiological Priors

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