@article {3678, title = {Assessment of muscle fatigue during isometric contraction using autonomic nervous system correlates}, journal = {Biomedical Signal Processing and Control}, volume = {51}, year = {2019}, month = {05/2019}, chapter = {42}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2019.02.007}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1746809419300436}, author = {A. Greco and G. Valenza and A. Bicchi and M. Bianchi and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {3721, title = {EEG Complexity Maps to Characterise Brain Dynamics during Upper Limb Motor Imagery}, booktitle = { Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS}, year = {2018}, doi = { 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512912}, url = { https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8512912}, author = {V. Catambrone and A. Greco and G. Averta and M. Bianchi and A. Bicchi and E. P. Scilingo and G. Valenza} } @conference {3722, title = {EEG Processing to Discriminate Transitive-Intransitive Motor Imagery Tasks: Preliminary Evidences using Support Vector Machines}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512239}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/2559406$\#$.XTbl43ux9GM}, author = {V. Catrambone and A. Greco and G. Averta and M. Bianchi and N. Vanello and A. Bicchi and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {3728, title = {Heart rate variability analysis during muscle fatigue due to prolonged isometric contraction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037076}, author = {A. Guidi and A. Greco and F. Felici and A. Leo and E. Ricciardi and M. Bianchi and A. Bicchi and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {3727, title = {Muscle fatigue assessment through electrodermal activity analysis during isometric contraction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036846}, author = {A. Greco and A. Guidi and F. Felici and A. Leo and E. Ricciardi and M. Bianchi and A. Bicchi and L. Citi and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {3105, title = {On the Role of Affective Properties in Hedonic and Discriminant Haptic Systems}, journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics}, volume = {9}, year = {2017}, month = {01/2017}, pages = {87{\textendash}95}, abstract = {

Common haptic devices are designed to effectively provide kinaesthetic and/or cutaneous discriminative inputs to the users by modulating some physical parameters. However, in addition to this behavior, haptic stimuli were proven to convey also affective inputs to the brain. Nevertheless, such affective properties of touch are often disregarded in the design (and consequent validation) of haptic displays. In this paper we present some preliminary experimental evidences about how emotional feelings, intrinsically present while interacting with tactile displays, can be assessed. We propose a methodology based on a bidimensional model of elicited emotions evaluated by means of simple psychometric tests and statistical inference. Specifically, affective dimensions are expressed in terms of arousal and valence, which are quantified through two simple one-question psychometric tests, whereas statistical inference is based on rank-based non-parametric tests. In this work we consider two types of haptic systems: (i) a softness display, FYD-2, which was designed to convey purely discriminative softness haptic stimuli and (ii) a system designed to convey affective caress-like stimuli (by regulating the velocity and the strength of the {\textquotedblleft}caress{\textquotedblright}) on the user forearm. Gender differences were also considered. In both devices, the affective component clearly depends on the stimuli and it is gender-related. Finally, we discuss how such outcomes might be profitably used to guide the design and the usage of haptic devices, in order to take into account also the emotional component, thus improving system performance.

}, keywords = {Haptics}, issn = {1875-4791}, doi = {10.1007/s12369-016-0371-x}, url = {http://rdcu.be/ugoW}, author = {M. Bianchi and G. Valenza and A Lanata and A. Greco and M. Nardelli and A. Bicchi and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {3252, title = {Combining electroencephalographic activity and instantaneous heart rate for assessing brain{\textendash}heart dynamics during visual emotional elicitation in healthy subjects}, journal = {Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A}, volume = {374}, year = {2016}, pages = {20150176}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, author = {G. Valenza and A. Greco and C. Gentili and A. Lanat{\`a} and Sebastiani, L. and D. Menicucci and A. Gemignani and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {3255, title = {Inhomogeneous point-processes to instantaneously assess affective haptic perception through heartbeat dynamics information}, journal = {Scientific reports}, volume = {6}, year = {2016}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, author = {G. Valenza and A. Greco and L. Citi and M. Bianchi and R. Barbieri and E. P. Scilingo} } @proceedings {2900, title = {On the Pleasantness of a Haptic Stimulation: How Different Textures can be Recognized through Heart Rate Variability Nonlinear Analysis}, year = {2016}, address = {Orlando, USA, August 16-20, 2016}, author = {M. Nardelli and A. Greco and M. Bianchi and E. P. Scilingo and G. Valenza} } @conference {2898, title = {Towards a Novel Generation of Haptic and Robotic Interfaces: Integrating A ective Physiology in Human-Robot Interaction}, booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016.}, year = {2016}, note = {
This work is supported in part by the European Re-
search Council under the Advanced Grant SoftHands {\textquotedblleft}A
Theory of Soft Synergies for a New Generation of Artificial
Hands{\textquotedblright} (no. ERC-291166), by the EU FP7 project {\textquotedblleft}WEAR-
able HAPtics for Humans and Robots (WEARHAP){\textquotedblright} (no.
601165) and by the EU H2020 project {\textquotedblleft}SoftPro: Synergy-
based Open-source Foundations and Technologies for Pros-
thetics and RehabilitatiOn{\textquotedblright} (H2020-ICT-688857).
}, address = {New York, August 26-31, 2016}, doi = {10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745100}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7745100}, author = {M. Bianchi and G. Valenza and A. Greco and M. Nardelli and E. Battaglia and A. Bicchi and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {2593, title = {Arousal recognition system based on heartbeat dynamics during auditory elicitation}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2015}, note = {

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}, pages = {6110{\textendash}6113}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Milano, ITA}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319786}, author = {M. Nardelli and G. Valenza and A. Greco and A Lanata and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {3250, title = {Brain dynamics during emotion elicitation in healthy subjects: An EEG study}, booktitle = {AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT), 2015}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}3}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, author = {G. Valenza and A. Greco and A. Lanat{\`a} and C. Gentili and D. Menicucci and Sebastiani, L. and A. Gemignani and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {2489, title = {cvxEDA: a Convex Optimization Approach to Electrodermal Activity Processing}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering}, year = {2015}, author = {A. Greco and G. Valenza and A Lanata and Scilingo E.P. and L. Citi} } @conference {2596, title = {Electrodermal activity analysis during affective haptic elicitation}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2015}, note = {

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}, pages = {5777{\textendash}5780}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Milano, ITA}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319705}, author = {A. Greco and G. Valenza and M. Nardelli and M. Bianchi and A Lanata and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {2592, title = {Electroencephalographic spectral correlates of caress-like affective haptic stimuli}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2015}, note = {

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}, pages = {4733{\textendash}4736}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Milano, ITA}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319451}, author = {G. Valenza and A. Greco and M. Nardelli and M. Bianchi and A Lanata and S. Rossi and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {2594, title = {Gender-specific velocity recognition of caress-like stimuli through nonlinear analysis of Heart Rate Variability}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2015}, note = {

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}, pages = {298{\textendash}301}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Milano, ITA}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318359}, author = {M. Nardelli and G. Valenza and M. Bianchi and A. Greco and A Lanata and A. Bicchi and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {2263, title = {How the autonomic nervous system and driving style change with incremental stressing conditions during simulated driving}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems}, year = {2015}, pages = {1505 - 1517 }, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/TITS.2014.2365681}, author = {A Lanata and G. Valenza and A. Greco and C. Gentili and F. Bucchi and F. Frendo and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {2417, title = {Recognizing Emotions Induced by Affective Sounds through Heart Rate Variability}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing}, year = {2015}, author = {M. Nardelli and G. Valenza and A. Greco and A Lanata and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {3244, title = {Robust Head Mounted Wearable Eye Tracking System for Dynamical Calibration}, journal = {Journal of Eye Movement Research}, volume = {8}, year = {2015}, pages = {1{\textendash}15}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, author = {A Lanata and A. Greco and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {2595, title = {On the tridimensional estimation of the gaze point by a stereoscopic wearable eye tracker}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2015}, note = {

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}, pages = {2283{\textendash}2286}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Milano, ITA}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318848}, author = {A Lanata and A. Greco and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {2146, title = {Electrodermal Activity in Bipolar Patients during Affective Elicitation}, journal = {IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics}, volume = {18}, year = {2014}, pages = {1865-1873}, author = {A. Greco and G. Valenza and A Lanata and G. Rota and E. P. Scilingo} } @article {2209, title = {Inference of Human Affective States from Psychophysiological Measurements Extracted under Ecologically Valid Conditions}, journal = {FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE}, volume = {8}, year = {2014}, abstract = {

Compared to standard laboratory protocols, the measurement of psychophysiological signals in real world experiments poses technical and methodological challenges due to external factors that cannot be directly controlled. To address this problem, we propose a hybrid approach based on an immersive and human accessible space called the eXperience Induction Machine (XIM), that incorporates the advantages of a laboratory within a life-like setting. The XIM integrates unobtrusive wearable sensors for the acquisition of psychophysiological signals suitable for ambulatory emotion research. In this paper, we present results from two different studies conducted to validate the XIM as a general-purpose sensing infrastructure for the study of human affective states under ecologically valid conditions. In the first investigation, we recorded and classified signals from subjects exposed to pictorial stimuli corresponding to a range of arousal levels, while they were free to walk and gesticulate. In the second study, we designed an experiment that follows the classical conditioning paradigm, a well-known procedure in the behavioral sciences, with the additional feature that participants were free to move in the physical space, as opposed to similar studies measuring physiological signals in constrained laboratory settings. Our results indicate that, by using our sensing infrastructure, it is indeed possible to infer human event-elicited affective states through measurements of psychophysiological signals under ecological conditions.

}, doi = {10.3389/fnins.2014.00286}, author = {A. Betella and R. Zucca and Cetnarski, A and A. Greco and A Lanata and D. Mazzei and A. Tognetti and X. D. Arsiwalla and P Omedas and D. De Rossi and Verschure, P} } @conference {2213, title = {Interpreting Psychophysiological States Using Unobtrusive Wearable Sensors in Virtual Reality}, booktitle = {Proc. of The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions}, year = {2014}, abstract = {

One of the main challenges in the study of human be- havior is to quantitatively assess the participants? affective states by measuring their psychophysiological signals in ecologically valid conditions. The quality of the acquired data, in fact, is often poor due to artifacts generated by natural interactions such as full body movements and gestures. We created a technology to address this problem. We enhanced the eXperience Induction Machine (XIM), an immersive space we built to conduct experiments on human behavior, with unobtrusive wearable sensors that measure electrocardiogram, breathing rate and electrodermal response. We conducted an empirical validation where participants wearing these sensors were free to move in the XIM space while exposed to a series of visual stimuli taken from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Our main result consists in the quan- titative estimation of the arousal range of the affective stimuli through the analysis of participants? psychophysiological states. Taken together, our findings show that the XIM constitutes a novel tool to study human behavior in life-like conditions.

}, author = {A. Betella and Pacheco, D. and R. Zucca and X. D. Arsiwalla and P Omedas and A Lanata and D. Mazzei and A. Tognetti and A. Greco and N. Carbonaro and Wagner, J. and Lingenfelser, F. and Andr{\`e}, E. and D. De Rossi and Verschure, P.} } @conference {2140, title = {Quantitative EEG analysis in minimally conscious state patients during postural changes}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2013}, pages = {6313{\textendash}6316}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {A. Greco and Carboncini, MC and Virgillito, A and A Lanata and G. Valenza and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {1482, title = {On the deconvolution analysis of electrodermal activity in bipolar patients}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2012}, pages = {6691{\textendash}6694}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, keywords = {Bioengineering}, author = {A. Greco and A Lanata and G. Valenza and Rota, G. and N. Vanello and E. P. Scilingo} } @conference {2006, title = {Unobtrusive Physiological and Gesture Wearable Acquisition System: A Preliminary Study on Behavioral and Emotional Correlations}, booktitle = {GLOBAL HEALTH 2012 : The First International Conference on Global Health Challenges}, year = {2012}, month = {21-26 October}, pages = {88{\textendash}92}, author = {N. Carbonaro and A. Greco and G. Anania and G. Dalle Mura and A. Tognetti and E. P. Scilingo and D. De Rossi and A Lanata} }