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This report describes the development of “a vital sensing chair” and “a vital sensing cushion” to obtain data on heart rate using capacity-coupled electrodes instead of electrodes attached on the skin and respiration pressure sensors embedded in the sheet. The measurement test for the vital chair was conducted with five participants during two events: watching TV programs or movies projected on a wall and operating a smartphone. The results did not yield sufficient performance; however, there is the possibility to apply the developed chair in the assessment of a human state in a relaxed posture. The evaluation of the developed cushion has not been performed yet and it will be a part of future work. A game for a pair of participants applying nonintrusive respiration measurement was developed to facilitate respiration synchronization. Sixty-eight participants experienced it, and it was well received.
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A part of this work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15K00385. All experiments referred to in this paper were executed with the permission of the president of Osaka Institute of Technology in accordance with the report of the Ethics Committee on Life Sciences of Osaka Institute of Technology. The author thanks individuals who worked in the driver sensing research groups, especially Mr. Shinji Sugiyama and Dr. Yukiyo Kuriyagawa and other researchers and students who worked and discussed for this research. The author also appreciates all the experiment participants.
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Ohsuga, M. (2019). Development of Chairs for Nonintrusive Measurement of Heart Rate and Respiration and Its Application. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 827. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96059-3_44
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