Biosignal acquisition of stress monitoring through wearable device

Abstract

Due to hectic and running lifestyle nowadays most of the people in the world are suffering from several physiological disorders such as hypertension, emotional stress, and cardiac diseases. Hence it becomes necessary to have a device that monitors our physiological parameters in day-to-day life which is portable and handy. This paper proposes a wearable device to monitor stress by the acquisition of skin resistance (GSR), standing for Galvanic Skin Response. GSR sensors allow to spot such strong emotions by simply attaching two electrodes to two fingers on one hand. There are mainly two types of stress like Physical stress and Physiological stress which can also be a cause of degradation in performance and also leads to higher psychological stress levels. The major cause of stress can be from lifestyle, daily living activities like visual stress, car driving, gaming control. These signals were procured using Data Acquisition System, then interfaced to the LabVIEW using microcontroller. Experimental setup is done using GSR connection with LabVIEW for data logger.