Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:T3-6
Session:
Number:5266
Assessing Canine Emotional States Using an Accelerometer
Rina Ouchi, Yuki Maruno, Takatomi Kubo, Maki Katayama, Miho Nagasawa, Takefumi Kikusui, Kazushi Ikeda ,
pp.665-667
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The estimation of emotional states is important to maximize the performances of rescue dogs. Although such physiological data as heart rate and its variability are effective for estimation tasks, they are difficult to measure in noisy environments. In this paper, we proposed a method for emotional state estimation from acceleration data. The method classified positive, negative, and neutral emotions with 92% accuracy within one subject and 72% over all subjects. These accuracies are high enough for practical use in rescue dogs.