Interacting with human physiology

I. Pavlidis; J. Dowdall; N. Sun; C. Puri; J. Fei; M. Garbey

doi:10.1016/j.cviu.2006.11.018

Interacting with human physiology

I. Pavlidis, J. Dowdall, N. Sun, C. Puri, J. Fei, M. Garbey

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We propose a novel system that incorporates physiological monitoring as part of the human-computer interface. The sensing element is a thermal camera that is employed as a computer peripheral. Through bioheat modeling of facial imagery almost the full range of vital signs can be extracted, including localize blood flow, cardiac pulse, and breath rate. This physiological information can then be used to draw inferences about a variety of health symptoms and psychological states. Our research aims to realize the notion of desktop health monitoring and create truly collaborative interactions in which humans and machines are both observing and responding.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	150-170
Number of pages	21
Journal	Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Volume	108
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2006.11.018
State	Published - Oct 2007

Keywords

Blood flow
Breath rate
Cardiac pulse
Facial tracking
Human-computer interaction
Sleep apnea
Stress
Thermal imaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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