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A Muscular and Cerebral Physiological Indices Assessment for Stress Measuring during Virtual Wheelchair Guidance

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The work presented in this manuscript has the purpose to assess the relationship between human factors and physiological indices. We discuss the relationship between stress as human factor and cerebral and muscular signals as features. Ten male paraplegic, right-handed subjects were volunteers for the experiment (mean age 34 ±6). They drove a virtual wheelchair in an indoor environment. They filled five missions where, in each one, an environmental parameter was changed. Meanwhile, they were equipped with Electromyography (EMG) sensors and Electroencephalography (EEG). Frequency and temporal features were filtered and extracted. Principal component analysis (PCA), Fisher’s tests, repeated measure Anova and post hoc Tukey test (α = 0.05) were implemented for statistics. Environmental modifications are subject to induce stress, which impacts muscular and cerebral activities. While the time pressure parameter was the most influent, the transition from static to moving obstacles (avatars), tends to have a significant impact on stress levels. However, adding more moving obstacles did not show any impact. A synchronization factor was noticed between cerebral and muscular features in higher stress levels. Further examination is needed to assess EEG reliability in these situations.

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hal-03424548 , version 1 (10-11-2021)

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Mohamed Ben Khelifa, Hachem Lamti, Vincent Hugel. A Muscular and Cerebral Physiological Indices Assessment for Stress Measuring during Virtual Wheelchair Guidance. Brain Sciences, 2021, 11 (2), pp.274. ⟨10.3390/brainsci11020274⟩. ⟨hal-03424548⟩
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