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<p>This paper describes the relationship between visual attention and eye blink frequency. In an experiment, we prompted the activation of a subject’s visual attention and examined the influence of visual attention (as measured using electrodermal activity (EDA), which is meaningfully correlated with visual attention) on the subject’s eye blink frequency. Experimental results show that engagement of visual attention decreased eye blink frequency and that when visual attention was not activated, eye blink frequency increased. Knowledge of this relationship provides a technique using EDA to objectively determining a subject’s visual attention status.</p>
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This paper describes the relationship between visual attention and eye blink frequency. In an experiment, we prompted the activation of a subject’s visual attention and examined the influence of visual attention (as measured using electrodermal activity (EDA), which is meaningfully correlated with visual attention) on the subject’s eye blink frequency. Experimental results show that engagement of visual attention decreased eye blink frequency and that when visual attention was not activated, eye blink frequency increased. Knowledge of this relationship provides a technique using EDA to objectively determining a subject’s visual attention status.

EDA-BASED ESTIMATION OF VISUAL ATTENTION BY OBSERVATION OF EYE BLINK FREQUENCY

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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This paper describes the relationship between visual attention and eye blink frequency. In an experiment, we prompted the activation of a subject’s visual...

EDA-BASED ESTIMATION OF VISUAL ATTENTION BY OBSERVATION OF EYE BLINK FREQUENCY

Publié en ligne: 01 juin 2017

Pages: 1 - 12

Reçu: 14 janv. 2017

Accepté: 08 avr. 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-212

Mots clés
Electrodermal activity (EDA), visual attention, eye blink, skin conductance response (SCR), index of physiological psychology, pre-cueing technique

© 2017 Tsugunosuke Sakai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

EDA-BASED ESTIMATION OF VISUAL ATTENTION BY OBSERVATION OF EYE BLINK FREQUENCY

Publié en ligne: 01 juin 2017

Pages: 1 - 12

Reçu: 14 janv. 2017

Accepté: 08 avr. 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-212

Mots clésElectrodermal activity (EDA), visual attention, eye blink, skin conductance response (SCR), index of physiological psychology, pre-cueing technique

© 2017 Tsugunosuke Sakai et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Electrodermal activity (EDA), visual attention, eye blink, skin conductance response (SCR), index of physiological psychology, pre-cueing technique