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Using Contactless Heart Rate Measurements for Real-Time Assessment of Affective States

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Heart rate measurements contain valuable information about a person’s affective state. There is a wide range of application domains for heart rate-based measures in information systems. To date, heart rate is typically measured using skin contact methods, where users must wear a measuring device. A non-contact and easy to use mobile approach, allowing heart rate measurements without interfering with the users’ natural environment, could prove to be a valuable NeuroIS tool. Hence, our two research objectives are (1) to develop an application for mobile devices that allows for non-contact, real-time heart rate measurement and (2) to evaluate this application in an IS context by benchmarking the results of our approach against established measurements. The proposed algorithm is based on non-contact photoplethysmography and hence takes advantage of slight skin color variations that occurs periodically with the user’s pulse.

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    We use a default interval of one second for tracking.

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  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Philipp V. Rouast, Ewa Lux & Christof Weinhardt

  2. University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Marc T. P. Adam & David J. Cornforth

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  1. Informaton Systems, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Appl. Sc. Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. Department of Information Technology, HEC Montréal , Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

    Adriane B. Randolph

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Rouast, P.V., Adam, M.T.P., Cornforth, D.J., Lux, E., Weinhardt, C. (2017). Using Contactless Heart Rate Measurements for Real-Time Assessment of Affective States. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41402-7_20

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