A Novel Approach Using Bilateral Data Fusion for EDA Data Classification

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Type: Bachelor Master UROP Status: Available

This thesis addresses the impact of lateralization on Electrodermal Activity (EDA) sensors in wearable devices. Lateralization, influenced by brain hemisphere activation, affects the accuracy of EDA readings based on the device’s placement on a specific body side. Despite recent studies highlighting this issue, there is limited exploration of the potential benefits of using EDA devices on both sides simultaneously. The research aims to fill this gap by investigating how leveraging data from both sides concurrently can enhance classifier accuracy through machine learning. The focus is on datasets in the lab, with implications for medical-grade applications affected by lateralization. Success in demonstrating improved accuracy may revolutionize the field, particularly in sensitive medical tasks, offering more reliable predictions for tasks impacted by lateralization.

For more information contact: Leonardo Alchieri, Silvia Santini

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Silvia Santini
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Silvia Santini
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Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.