Selecting optimal wearables for measuring physiological arousal in robot-delivered mindfulness-based exercises.

Autor:	Vacaru SV; Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies & Amsterdam Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Department of Psychology, New York University - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates., Lau LP; Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies & Amsterdam Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Frederiks K; Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies & Amsterdam Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Sterkenburg PS; Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies & Amsterdam Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Barakova E; Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Advanced robotics : the international journal of the Robotics Society of Japan [Adv Robot] 2024 Jul 11; Vol. 38 (19-20), pp. 1364-1377. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 11 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1080/01691864.2024.2369797
Abstrakt:	While social robots show promise for therapeutic interventions, accurate assessments of (vulnerable) participants' affective outcomes require attention. The careful selection of devices for recording autonomic processes in response to stress-inducing and relaxing exercises is essential to ensure data quality recordings and participants' comfort. This foundational study assessed two commonly utilized devices to record electrodermal activity (EDA), indexed through skin conductance, concerning their sensitivity to stress-relaxation manipulations and social validity during a robot intervention: a sock with a Shimmer device and a wrist-worn Empatica E4. We aimed to select the most sensitive and easy-to-wear one as a precursor to a larger intervention study featuring mindfulness-based relaxation exercises delivered by an NAO robot. The findings, based on 28 healthy Dutch-speaking adult volunteers wearing both devices, revealed sensitivity in detecting EDA variations in arousal following stressful (increase) and Robot-delivered mindfulness-based relaxation (decrease) exercises, further corroborated by self-reports. Bland-Altman results suggested little agreement between the two devices and lower sensitivity for the Empatica E4. No statistically significant differences concerning wearing comfort between the Empatica E4 and the Shimmer devices emerged. Although both devices independently showed sensitivity to stress/relaxation manipulation, the choice for one or the other should be informed by the activities in the intervention. Competing Interests: PS, KF, and EB conceptualized the study. KF, LPL, PS, and EB performed the study. EB coordinated the human-robot interaction design and programming. SV, LPL, and KF did the formal analysis. SV and LPL wrote the first draft. All authors reviewed the final manuscript.No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Scientific and Ethical Review Board (VCWE) of the Faculty of Behavior & Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (nr. VCWE-2022-051), as well as the Medical Ethical Committee of the Vrije Universiteit Medical Center Amsterdam (Niet-WMO 2022.0175). Informed consent was obtained from all participants before participation in the study. (© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group and The Robotics Society of Japan.)
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