There are several meditation head bands like MUSE etc. Have they been used for emotion detection and what is there viability in emotion detection problems.
Kindly provide links to paper featuring these headsets.
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Hello!
That is a very controversial issue. There are people who claim they can do it, even with less sophisticated equipment like an Emotiv EPOC headset (see the first paper below). But I know many researchers who still doubt, that it would be possible to reliably identify emotional states in EEG patterns.
Anyway, it should be difficult to cover all the required electrode positions with a single headband. These are a few papers I know about this issue:
* Yisi Liu, Olga Sourina, Minh Khoa Nguyen (2011) "Real-Time EEG-Based Emotion Recognition and Its Applications". In: "Transactions on Computational Science XII"
* Bos., D.O.: EEG-based emotion recognition. electrode positions (available online, no peer-reviewed paper but widely cited)
* Taciana Saad Rached and Angelo Perkusich (2013) "Emotion Recognition Based on Brain-Computer Interface Systems". In: "Brain-Computer Interface Systems - Recent Progress and Future Prospects"
Of course, for a headband to be of use, it must cover all relevant positions. But not only does it look difficult that a headband could cover all the electrode positions identified in these papers. The relevant positions also vary among these papers. That makes the situation difficult. And - on top of that - reference electrodes vary, too. I must also point out that all those papers have considerable methodological issues.
Furthermore, before you go ahead you need to clarify some details. Do you need to identify specific emotional states (anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, etc.) or would it be sufficient to determine the level of arousal and the valence? And do you need to determine emotional states on a single trial basis or can you aggregate over time? These aspects will most likely have impact on your project.
All in all:
1. I never tried it but I don't think it's doable using just a headband.
2. The "prognosis" would be easier, if you made up your mind about the specific requirements regarding your project.
Hope this helps,
Jan Seifert
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