A knitted garment using intarsia technique for Heart Rate Variability biofeedback: Evaluation of initial prototype.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2015: 3121-4, 2015.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26736953
ABSTRACT
Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback is a method based on paced breathing at specific rate called resonance frequency by giving online feedbacks from user respiration and its effect on HRV. Since the HRV is also influence by different factors like stress and emotions, stress related to an unfamiliar measurement device, cables and skin electrodes may cover the underling effect of such kind of intervention. Wearable systems are usually considered as intuitive solutions which are more familiar to the end-user and can help to improve usability and hence reducing the stress. In this work, a prototype of a knitted garment using intarsia technique is developed and evaluated. Results show the satisfactory level of quality for Electrocardiogram and thoracic electrical bioimpedance i.e. for respiration monitoring as a part of HRV biofeedback system. Using intarsia technique and conductive yarn for making the connection instead of cables will reduce the complexity of fabrication in textile production and hence reduce the final costs in a final commercial product. Further development of garment and Android application is ongoing and usability and efficiency of final prototype will be evaluated in detail.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Biofeedback, Psychology
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Clothing
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Heart Rate
Type of study:
Evaluation_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article