Discovering Emotional Logic Rules From Physiological Data of Individuals

Abstract

This paper discusses our work on discovering a set of emotional logic rules, derived from physiological data of individuals from a wearable technology perspective. We concentrated the analysis on physiological data such as plethysmography, respiration, galvanic skin response, and temperature that can be detected by wearable sensors. We sourced our data from the DEAP dataset, which is a popular labelled Affective Computing dataset. Our approach implemented a fusion of preprocessing and data mining techniques, to discover logic rules relating to the valence and arousal emotional dimensions. Our findings indicate that while there are similar changes in heart rates or galvanic skin response across individuals during emotional stimuli, every individual has a unique and quantifiable physiological reaction.