Psychophysiological Stress Control via Heart Rate Entrainment

Abstract

The aim of this work is to develop a real-time system able to classify and passively reduce stress. Heart Rate (HR) and Skin Conductance Response (SCR) are used for stress classification. Entrainment phenomenon is exploited as a possible way to reduce stress via an auditory stimulus. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) produces 84% of stress classification accuracy and a slight effect is obtained for stress reduction.