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  1. Article

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    Exploring the electrical robustness of conductive textile fasteners for wearable devices in different human motion conditions

    Conventional snap fasteners used in clothing are often used as electrical connectors in e-textile and wearable applications for signal transmission due to their wide availability and ease of use. Nonetheless, ...

    Afonso Fortes Ferreira, Helena Alves, Hugo Plácido da Silva in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Acting Emotions: a comprehensive dataset of elicited emotions

    Emotions encompass physiological systems that can be assessed through biosignals like electromyography and electrocardiography. Prior investigations in emotion recognition have primarily focused on general pop...

    Luís Aly, Leonor Godinho, Patricia Bota, Gilberto Bernardes in Scientific Data (2024)

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    Impact of sampling rate and interpolation on photoplethysmography and electrodermal activity signals’ waveform morphology and feature extraction

    The availability of low-cost biomedical devices has driven a growing interest in the use of physiological signals for mental and emotional health research. Due to their potential for integration in discrete we...

    Rafael Silva, Gonçalo Salvador, Patrícia Bota in Neural Computing and Applications (2023)

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    EmotiphAI: a biocybernetic engine for real-time biosignals acquisition in a collective setting

    In the latter years, we have been observing a growth in wearable technology for personal use. However, an analysis of the state of the art for wearable technology shows that most devices perform data acquisiti...

    Patrícia Bota, Emmanuel Flety, Hugo Plácido da Silva in Neural Computing and Applications (2023)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Temporal Dynamics of Drowsiness Detection Using LSTM-Based Models

    Different LSTM-based models were tested for binary drowsiness detection using the ULg Multimodality Drowsiness Database (DROZY). The dataset contains physiological signals and behavioral measures collected fro...

    Rafael Silva, Lourenço Abrunhosa Rodrigues in Advances in Computational Intelligence (2023)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    AI-Based mHealth App for Covid-19 or Cardiac Diseases Diagnosis and Prognosis

    Covid-19 has rapidly spread and affected millions of people worldwide. For that reason, the public healthcare system was overwhelmed and underprepared to deal with this pandemic. Covid-19 also interfered with ...

    Ana Vieira, Luís B. Elvas, João C. Ferreira in Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and … (2023)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

    7th International Conference, CHIRA 2023, Rome, Italy, November 16–17, 2023, Proceedings, Part II

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Pietro Cipresso in Communications in Computer and Information Science (2023)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

    5th International Conference, CHIRA 2021, Virtual Event, October 28–29, 2021, and 6th International Conference, CHIRA 2022, Valletta, Malta, October 27–28, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

    Andreas Holzinger in Communications in Computer and Information Science (2023)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications

    7th International Conference, CHIRA 2023, Rome, Italy, November 16–17, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Pietro Cipresso in Communications in Computer and Information Science (2023)

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    Design and evaluation of a novel approach to invisible electrocardiography (ECG) in sanitary facilities using polymeric electrodes

    Multiple wearable devices for cardiovascular self-monitoring have been proposed over the years, with growing evidence showing their effectiveness in the detection of pathologies that would otherwise be unnotic...

    Aline dos Santos Silva, Hugo Almeida, Hugo Plácido da Silva in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Study of Mechanomyographic Alternatives to EMG Sensors for a Low-Cost Open Source Bionic Hand

    Traditionally EMG (ElectroMyoGraphic) sensors are the first choice when a prosthetic hand is developed. However different approaches can be used, namely using the detection of changes in muscle volume instead ...

    Joana Marques, Sara Ramos, Milton P. Macedo in 5th EAI International Conference on IoT Te… (2020)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Physiological Computing Systems

    International Conferences, PhyCS 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, July 27–28, 2016, PhyCS 2017, Madrid, Spain, July 27–28, 2017, PhyCS 2018, Seville, Spain, September 19–21, 2018, Revised and Extended Selected Papers

    Andreas Holzinger, Alan Pope in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2019)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    The Biosignal C.A.O.S.: Reflections on the Usability of Physiological Sensing for Human-Computer Interaction Practitioners and Researchers

    Wearable technologies and low-cost hardware platforms for physiological data sensing are rapidly growing. However, biosignal sources pose usability and acceptability challenges, which can negativelly affect th...

    Hugo Plácido da Silva in Converging Clinical and Engineering Resear… (2017)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Unsupervised Analysis of Morphological ECG Features for Attention Detection

    Physiological Computing the bandwidth a and its by continuous, real-time monitoring of the user’s physiological traits and responses. This is especially interesting in a context of emotional assessme...

    Carlos Carreiras, André Lourenço, Helena Aidos in Computational Intelligence (2016)

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    Off-the-person electrocardiography: performance assessment and clinical correlation

    Previous work by our group introduced a novel concept and sensor design for “off-the-person” ECG, for which evidence on how it compares against standard clinical-grade equipment has been largely missing. Our o...

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Carlos Carreiras, André Lourenço, Ana Fred in Health and Technology (2015)

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    A web-based platform for biosignal visualization and annotation

    With the advent of wearable sensing and mobile technologies, biosignals have seen an increasingly growing number of application areas, leading to the collection of large volumes of data. One of the difficultie...

    André Lourenço, Hugo Plácido da Silva in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2014)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Physiological Computing Systems

    First International Conference, PhyCS 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, January 7-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Andreas Holzinger in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2014)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Evaluation of a Context-Aware Application for Mobile Robot Control Mediated by Physiological Data: The ToBITas Case Study

    We present the ToBITas mobile Context-Aware application to control a mobile robot using electromyographic and accelerometric signals acquired from the user’s right-hand arm. The signals are acquired by means o...

    Borja Gamecho, José Guerreiro in Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intellige… (2014)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Paper-Based Inkjet Electrodes

    Electrocardiographic (ECG) acquisition has evolved imensly over the last decade in particular with regards to sensing technology. From classical silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes, to textile electrod...

    Ana Priscila Alves, João Martins, Hugo Plácido da Silva in Physiological Computing Systems (2014)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Towards the Detection of Deception in Interactive Multimedia Environments

    A classical application of biosignal analysis has been the psychophysiological detection of deception, also known as the polygraph test, which is currently a part of standard practices of law enforcement agenc...

    Hugo Plácido da Silva, Ana Priscila Alves in Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge D… (2013)