Towards semi-automated assistance for the treatment of stress disorders
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People who suffer from a stress disorder have a severe handicap in daily life. In addition, stress disorders are complex and consequently, hard to define and hard to treat. Semi-automatic assistance was envisioned that helps in the treatment of a stress disorder. Speech was considered to provide an excellent tool for providing an objective, unobtrusive emotion measure. Speech from 25 patients suffering from a stress disorder was recorded while they participated in two storytelling sessions. The Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD) was determined as a subjective measure and enabled the validation of the derived speech features. A regression model with four speech parameters (i.e., signal, power, zero crossing ratio, and pitch), was able to explain 70% of the variance in the SUD measure. As such it lays the foundation for semi-automated assistance for the treatment of patients with stress disorders.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings |
Number of pages | 4 |
Publication date | 2010 |
Pages | 446-449 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789896740160 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Event | 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2010 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 20 Jan 2010 → 23 Jan 2010 |
Conference
Conference | 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2010 |
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Land | Spain |
By | Valencia |
Periode | 20/01/2010 → 23/01/2010 |
Series | HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings |
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- Diagnosis, Indicator, Speech, Stress
Research areas
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