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My garment will interact with the anxiety.

But the question is which sensor is working with stress perfectly?

With help of my mentor Katia Vega, I started to research on the application of affective wearables.

According to study on Emotion Recognition from Physiology Via Wearable Computers;

“Different physiological signals were important in terms of recognizing different emotions. Our results show a relationship between galvanic skin response and frustration. When a participant was frustrated, her GSR increased. The difference in GSR values of the frustrated participants was higher than the differences in both heart rate and temperature values. Similarly, heart rate was more related to anger and fear. Heart rate value of a feared participant increased, whereas it decreased when the participant was angry”⁽¹⁾

I chose to use Galvanic skin sensor. Galvanic skin sensor is the best sensor in case of fear or stress.

There are researches about galvanic skin sensors are indicating with stress.

According to Automatic Stress Recognition in Real-Life Settings research from MIT media lab;

“Stress-induced changes can be monitored with biosensors, and a particular focus is often placed on the sympathetic nervous system, which is designed to mobilize the body’s resources in response to a challenge or a threat. While most visceral organs are dually innervated by both the para- and sympathetic nervous systems, the eccrine sweat glands are thought to be solely controlled by the sympathetic nervous system. Thus, skin conductance sensors that measure eccrine sweat gland activity are often used to monitor sympathetic nervous system activity” ⁽²⁾

Skin conductance is considered to be a function of the sweat gland activity and the skin's pore size.Galvanic Skin Response is a measure of the skin's conductance between two electrodes. Electrodes are small metal plates that apply a safe, imperceptibly tiny voltage across the skin. ⁽³⁾

^{I obtain Galvanic skin response sensor. To figure it out; How galvanic skin sensor working on my body. In which part of my body, it can react more efficiently.}

Because GSR sensor working individual's baseline skin conductance will vary for many reasons, including gender, diet, skin type and situation.

To run my sensor, I used these equipments;