FRAME – a FRAMEwork for objectively measuring fear based on physiological and psychological data
Publication date
2024-12-19
Document type
Konferenzbeitrag
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Conference
58th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering ; Stuttgart, Germany ; September 18 – 20, 2024
Series or journal
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
Periodical volume
10
Periodical issue
4
Book title
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Biomedical Engineering (18 – 20 September 2024, Stuttgart)
First page
276
Last page
279
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Keyword
Arachnophobia
Behavioural avoidance test
BAT
Fear detection
Phobia
Spider
Virtual reality
VR
Abstract
Psychological trials, such as behavioural avoidance tests (BAT), are a fundamental part of the phobia therapeutic process. In order to link physiological reactions with specific points in time during psychological trials, it is necessary to integrate observation data with data collected automatically by sensors, such as wearable devices. To this end, this paper introduces FRAME - a framework for combining real-world events occurring during psychological trials with physiological data collected by wearables. FRAME consists of three parts, an Observation App, a data integration module and a Virtual Reality (VR) App. The Observation App captures events and their exact time of occurrence. The integration module links the observations with the respective physiological data, allowing an in-depth analysis of physiological reactions. The VR App provides a virtual scenario based on the BAT in vivo, thus enabling a BAT in virtuo. The practical applicability of FRAME is tested within a study comparing behavioural avoidance tests in vivo and in virtuo, assessing 25 patients with arachnophobia wearing an Empatica E4.
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Grensing, Florian, Schmücker, Vanessa, Hildebrand, Anne Sophie, Klucken, Tim and Maleshkova, Maria. "FRAME – A FRAMEwork for Objectively Measuring Fear Based on Physiological and Psychological Data" Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, 2024, pp. 276-279. https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2024-2067
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