Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging
© 2017 IEEE. A growing number of studies show links between changes in tongue appearance and human health conditions. This paper studies tongue color changes in the context of stress to explore the feasibility of providing a novel and non-invasive stress measurement method. In a laboratory study, 24...
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| author | Hernandez Rivera, Javier Ferguson, Craig Sano, Akane Chen, Weixuan Li, Weihui Yeung, Albert S. Picard, Rosalind W. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Hernandez Rivera, Javier Ferguson, Craig Sano, Akane Chen, Weixuan Li, Weihui Yeung, Albert S. Picard, Rosalind W. |
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| description | © 2017 IEEE. A growing number of studies show links between changes in tongue appearance and human health conditions. This paper studies tongue color changes in the context of stress to explore the feasibility of providing a novel and non-invasive stress measurement method. In a laboratory study, 24 participants were asked to perform a calm and a stressful math task and to take a photo of their tongue right after each of the tasks. We observed subtle but consistent color differences between calm and stress tasks for up to 75% of the participants, which was consistent with both self-report and physiological metrics of stress. Moreover, we observed significant correlations of up to 0.72 between certain tongue colors and long-term stress assessed with the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire. We discuss the potential implications of this work and highlight some lines of future research. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/138081.22022-09-22T07:06:57Z Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging Hernandez Rivera, Javier Ferguson, Craig Sano, Akane Chen, Weixuan Li, Weihui Yeung, Albert S. Picard, Rosalind W. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory © 2017 IEEE. A growing number of studies show links between changes in tongue appearance and human health conditions. This paper studies tongue color changes in the context of stress to explore the feasibility of providing a novel and non-invasive stress measurement method. In a laboratory study, 24 participants were asked to perform a calm and a stressful math task and to take a photo of their tongue right after each of the tasks. We observed subtle but consistent color differences between calm and stress tasks for up to 75% of the participants, which was consistent with both self-report and physiological metrics of stress. Moreover, we observed significant correlations of up to 0.72 between certain tongue colors and long-term stress assessed with the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire. We discuss the potential implications of this work and highlight some lines of future research. 2022-01-10T20:46:41Z 2021-11-09T21:38:10Z 2022-01-10T20:46:41Z 2017-10 2019-08-02T11:17:03Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138081.2 Hernandez, Javier, Ferguson, Craig, Sano, Akane, Chen, Weixuan, Li, Weihui et al. 2017. "Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging." en 10.1109/acii.2017.8273593 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/octet-stream Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Hernandez Rivera, Javier Ferguson, Craig Sano, Akane Chen, Weixuan Li, Weihui Yeung, Albert S. Picard, Rosalind W. Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
| title | Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
| title_full | Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
| title_fullStr | Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
| title_short | Stress Measurement from Tongue Color Imaging |
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| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138081.2 |
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