Publications by Adriana Arza Valdes

Psychosomatic response to acute emotional stress in healthy students

The multidimensionality of the stress response has shown the complexity of this phenomenon and therefore the impossibility of finding a unique biomarker among the physiological variables related to stress. An experimental study was designed and performed t ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Machine-Learning Based Monitoring of Cognitive Workload in Rescue Missions with Drones

David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Ping-Keng Jao

In search and rescue missions, drone operations are challenging and cognitively demanding. High levels of cognitive workload can affect rescuers’ performance, leading to failure with catastrophic outcomes. To face this problem, we propose a machine learnin ...

2022

CAFS: Cost-Aware Features Selection Method for Multimodal Stress Monitoring on Wearable Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Adriana Arza Valdes, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues, Niloofar Momeni

Objective: Today, stress monitoring on wearable devices is challenged by the tension between high-detection accuracy and battery lifetime driven by multimodal data acquisition and processing. Limited research has addressed the classification cost on multim ...

2022

Real-Time EEG-Based Cognitive Workload Monitoring on Wearable Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Adriana Arza Valdes, Renato Zanetti

Objective: Cognitive workload monitoring (CWM) can enhance human-machine interaction by supporting task execution assistance considering the operator’s cognitive state. Therefore, we propose a machine learning design methodology and a data processing strat ...

2022

Wearable and Continuous Prediction of Passage of Time Perception for Monitoring Mental Health

David Atienza Alonso, Lara Orlandic, Adriana Arza Valdes

A person’s passage of time perception (POTP) is strongly linked to their mental state and stress response, and can therefore provide an easily quantifiable means of continuous mental health monitoring. In this work, we develop a custom experiment and Machi ...

2021

ReBeatICG database

David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Olivier Muller, Una Pale, David Meier

ReBeatICG database contains ICG (impedance cardiography) signals recorded during an experimental session of a virtual search and rescue mission with drones. It includes beat-to-beat annotations of the ICG characteristic points, made by a cardiologist, with ...

2021

Synthetic realistic noise-corrupted PPG database and noise generator for the evaluation of PPG denoising and delineation algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, Giulio Masinelli, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola

This database is meant to evaluate the performance of denoising and delineation algorithms for PPG signals affected by noise. The noise generator allows applying the algorithms under test to an artificially corrupted reference PPG signal and comparing its ...

2021

MBioTracker: Multimodal Self-Aware Bio-Monitoring Wearable System for Online Workload Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Una Pale, Rodrigo Mariño Andrés

Cognitive workload affects operators' performance principally in high-risk or time-demanding situations and when multitasking is required. An online cognitive workload monitoring system can provide valuable inputs to decision-making instances, such as the ...

2021

ReLearn: A Robust Machine Learning Framework in Presence of Missing Data for Multimodal Stress Detection from Physiological Signals

David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Arman Iranfar

2021

ReBeatICG: Real-time Low-Complexity Beat-to-beat Impedance Cardiogram Delineation Algorithm

David Atienza Alonso, Adriana Arza Valdes, Una Pale

This work presents ReBeatICG, a real-time, low-complexity beat-to-beat impedance cardiography (ICG) delineation algorithm that allows hemodynamic parameters monitoring. The proposed procedure relies only on the ICG signal compared to most algorithms found ...

2021