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A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies.

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Foster, M; Beppler, E; Holder, T; Dieffenderfer, J; Erb, P; Everette, K; Gruen, M; Somers, T; Evans, T; Daniele, M; Roberts, DL; Bozkurt, A
Published in: Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2018

Animal-assisted therapies (AAT) are becoming increasingly common to help hospitalized patients, especially in oncology units. There is a critical need for methods and technologies that can enable a quantifiable understanding of AAT to objectively demonstrate its efficacy and improve its efficiency. In this paper, we present our preliminary efforts towards the development of wireless sensor systems to simultaneously detect the related behavioral (activity level, movement, stroking) and physiological signals (heart rate/variability) of humans and animals during their interaction. To detect heart rate, we tested two different techniques based on wearable or contactless electrocardiography. In this preliminary evaluation, we were able to assess these parameters successfully and identify the design challenges towards deployment of these systems in larger clinical studies.

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Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc

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2694-0604

Publication Date

July 2018

Volume

2018

Start / End Page

4347 / 4350

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Heart Rate
  • Electrocardiography
  • Dogs
  • Animals
  • Animal Assisted Therapy
 

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Foster, M., Beppler, E., Holder, T., Dieffenderfer, J., Erb, P., Everette, K., … Bozkurt, A. (2018). A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies. In Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc (Vol. 2018, pp. 4347–4350). United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513384
Foster, Marc, Eric Beppler, Timothy Holder, James Dieffenderfer, Patrick Erb, Kristy Everette, Margaret Gruen, et al. “A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies.” In Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2018:4347–50, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513384.
Foster M, Beppler E, Holder T, Dieffenderfer J, Erb P, Everette K, et al. A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies. In: Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018. p. 4347–50.
Foster, Marc, et al. “A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies.Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, vol. 2018, 2018, pp. 4347–50. Pubmed, doi:10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513384.
Foster M, Beppler E, Holder T, Dieffenderfer J, Erb P, Everette K, Gruen M, Somers T, Evans T, Daniele M, Roberts DL, Bozkurt A. A System for Assessment of Canine-Human Interaction during Animal-Assisted Therapies. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018. p. 4347–4350.

Published In

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc

DOI

EISSN

2694-0604

Publication Date

July 2018

Volume

2018

Start / End Page

4347 / 4350

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Heart Rate
  • Electrocardiography
  • Dogs
  • Animals
  • Animal Assisted Therapy