@inproceedings{bf39c2371b344ccaa9924deab2a9b93f,
title = "Towards semi-automated assistance for the treatment of stress disorders",
abstract = "People who suffer from a stress disorder have a severe handicap in daily life. In addition, stress disorders are complex and consequently, hard to define and hard to treat. Semi-automatic assistance was envisioned that helps in the treatment of a stress disorder. Speech was considered to provide an excellent tool for providing an objective, unobtrusive emotion measure. Speech from 25 patients suffering from a stress disorder was recorded while they participated in two storytelling sessions. As a subjective measure, the Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD) was determined, which enabled the validation of derived speech features. A regression model with four speech parameters (i.e., signal, power, zero crossing ratio, and pitch), was able to explain 70% of the variance in the SUD measure. As such it lays the foundation for semi-automated assistance for the treatment of patients with stress disorders.",
keywords = "METIS-276070, IR-72502, Diagnosis, indicator, HMI-HF: Human Factors, Speech, EWI-18247, HMI-SLT: Speech and Language Technology, Stress",
author = "{van der Sluis}, Frans and {van den Broek}, Egon and Ton Dijkstra",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
day = "20",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-989-674-016-0",
publisher = "INSTICC PRESS",
pages = "446--449",
editor = "A. Fred and J. Filipe and H. Gamboa",
booktitle = "HealthInf 2010: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics",
note = "Third International Conference on Health Informatics, HealthInf 2010 ; Conference date: 20-01-2010 Through 23-01-2010",
}