TY - GEN
T1 - Towards semi-automated assistance for the treatment of stress disorders
AU - Van Der Sluis, Frans
AU - Van Der Broek, Egon L.
AU - Dijkstra, Ton
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - People who suffer from a stress disorder have a severe handicap in daily life. In addition, stress disorders are complex and consequently, hard to define and hard to treat. Semi-automatic assistance was envisioned that helps in the treatment of a stress disorder. Speech was considered to provide an excellent tool for providing an objective, unobtrusive emotion measure. Speech from 25 patients suffering from a stress disorder was recorded while they participated in two storytelling sessions. The Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD) was determined as a subjective measure and enabled the validation of the derived speech features. A regression model with four speech parameters (i.e., signal, power, zero crossing ratio, and pitch), was able to explain 70% of the variance in the SUD measure. As such it lays the foundation for semi-automated assistance for the treatment of patients with stress disorders.
AB - People who suffer from a stress disorder have a severe handicap in daily life. In addition, stress disorders are complex and consequently, hard to define and hard to treat. Semi-automatic assistance was envisioned that helps in the treatment of a stress disorder. Speech was considered to provide an excellent tool for providing an objective, unobtrusive emotion measure. Speech from 25 patients suffering from a stress disorder was recorded while they participated in two storytelling sessions. The Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD) was determined as a subjective measure and enabled the validation of the derived speech features. A regression model with four speech parameters (i.e., signal, power, zero crossing ratio, and pitch), was able to explain 70% of the variance in the SUD measure. As such it lays the foundation for semi-automated assistance for the treatment of patients with stress disorders.
KW - Diagnosis
KW - Indicator
KW - Speech
KW - Stress
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M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:77956316045
SN - 9789896740160
T3 - HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
SP - 446
EP - 449
BT - HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2010
Y2 - 20 January 2010 through 23 January 2010
ER -