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Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+
The capability of measuring specific neurophysiological and autonomic parameters plays a crucial role in the objective evaluation of a human’s mental and emotional states. These human aspects are commonly known in the scientific literature to be involved in a wide range of processes, such as stress...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10346781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37447697 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23135847 |
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author | Ronca, Vincenzo Martinez-Levy, Ana C. Vozzi, Alessia Giorgi, Andrea Aricò, Pietro Capotorto, Rossella Borghini, Gianluca Babiloni, Fabio Di Flumeri, Gianluca |
author_facet | Ronca, Vincenzo Martinez-Levy, Ana C. Vozzi, Alessia Giorgi, Andrea Aricò, Pietro Capotorto, Rossella Borghini, Gianluca Babiloni, Fabio Di Flumeri, Gianluca |
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description | The capability of measuring specific neurophysiological and autonomic parameters plays a crucial role in the objective evaluation of a human’s mental and emotional states. These human aspects are commonly known in the scientific literature to be involved in a wide range of processes, such as stress and arousal. These aspects represent a relevant factor especially in real and operational environments. Neurophysiological autonomic parameters, such as Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Photoplethysmographic data (PPG), have been usually investigated through research-graded devices, therefore resulting in a high degree of invasiveness, which could negatively interfere with the monitored user’s activity. For such a reason, in the last decade, recent consumer-grade wearable devices, usually designed for fitness-tracking purposes, are receiving increasing attention from the scientific community, and are characterized by a higher comfort, ease of use and, therefore, by a higher compatibility with daily-life environments. The present preliminary study was aimed at assessing the reliability of a consumer wearable device, i.e., the Fitbit Sense, with respect to a research-graded wearable, i.e., the Empatica E4 wristband, and a laboratory device, i.e., the Shimmer GSR3+. EDA and PPG data were collected among 12 participants while they performed multiple resting conditions. The results demonstrated that the EDA- and PPG-derived features computed through the wearable and research devices were positively and significantly correlated, while the reliability of the consumer device was significantly lower. |
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spelling | pubmed-103467812023-07-15 Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ Ronca, Vincenzo Martinez-Levy, Ana C. Vozzi, Alessia Giorgi, Andrea Aricò, Pietro Capotorto, Rossella Borghini, Gianluca Babiloni, Fabio Di Flumeri, Gianluca Sensors (Basel) Article The capability of measuring specific neurophysiological and autonomic parameters plays a crucial role in the objective evaluation of a human’s mental and emotional states. These human aspects are commonly known in the scientific literature to be involved in a wide range of processes, such as stress and arousal. These aspects represent a relevant factor especially in real and operational environments. Neurophysiological autonomic parameters, such as Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Photoplethysmographic data (PPG), have been usually investigated through research-graded devices, therefore resulting in a high degree of invasiveness, which could negatively interfere with the monitored user’s activity. For such a reason, in the last decade, recent consumer-grade wearable devices, usually designed for fitness-tracking purposes, are receiving increasing attention from the scientific community, and are characterized by a higher comfort, ease of use and, therefore, by a higher compatibility with daily-life environments. The present preliminary study was aimed at assessing the reliability of a consumer wearable device, i.e., the Fitbit Sense, with respect to a research-graded wearable, i.e., the Empatica E4 wristband, and a laboratory device, i.e., the Shimmer GSR3+. EDA and PPG data were collected among 12 participants while they performed multiple resting conditions. The results demonstrated that the EDA- and PPG-derived features computed through the wearable and research devices were positively and significantly correlated, while the reliability of the consumer device was significantly lower. MDPI 2023-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10346781/ /pubmed/37447697 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23135847 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ronca, Vincenzo Martinez-Levy, Ana C. Vozzi, Alessia Giorgi, Andrea Aricò, Pietro Capotorto, Rossella Borghini, Gianluca Babiloni, Fabio Di Flumeri, Gianluca Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title | Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title_full | Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title_fullStr | Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title_full_unstemmed | Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title_short | Wearable Technologies for Electrodermal and Cardiac Activity Measurements: A Comparison between Fitbit Sense, Empatica E4 and Shimmer GSR3+ |
title_sort | wearable technologies for electrodermal and cardiac activity measurements: a comparison between fitbit sense, empatica e4 and shimmer gsr3+ |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10346781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37447697 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23135847 |
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