Automatic identification of artifacts in electrodermal activity data

• Main Authors: Taylor, Sara Ann (Contributor), Jaques, Natasha Mary (Contributor), Chen, Weixuan (Contributor), Fedor, Szymon (Contributor), Sano, Akane (Contributor), Picard, Rosalind W. (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-07-20T19:07:13Z.
• Subjects: Article
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 Recently, wearable devices have allowed for long term, ambulatory measurement of electrodermal activity (EDA). Despite the fact that ambulatory recording can be noisy, and recording artifacts can easily be mistaken for a physiological response during analysis, to date there is no automatic method for detecting artifacts. This paper describes the development of a machine learning algorithm for automatically detecting EDA artifacts, and provides an empirical evaluation of classification performance. We have encoded our results into a freely available web-based tool for artifact and peak detection.