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Physiological Synchrony, Stress and Communication of Paramedic Trainees During Emergency Response Training

Authors:

Vasundhara Misal,

Sanaz Taherzadeh,

Hannah McGowan,

J. Lee Jenkins,

Andrea KleinsmithAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Pages 82 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425250

Published: 27 December 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Paramedics play a critical role in society and face many high stress situations in their day-to-day work. Long-term unmanaged stress can result in mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Physiological synchrony - the unconscious, dynamic linking of physiological responses such as electrodermal activity (EDA) - have been linked to stress and team coordination. In this preliminary analysis, we examined the relationship between EDA synchrony, perceived stress and communication between paramedic trainee pairs during in-situ simulation training. Our initial results indicated a correlation between high physiological synchrony and social coordination and group processes. Moreover, communication between paramedic dyads was inversely related to physiological synchrony, i.e., communication increased during low synchrony segments of the interaction and decreased during high synchrony segments.

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Akiri SMisal VTaherzadeh SJenkins JWilliams GMentis HKleinsmith A(2024)Enhancing Stress Understanding Through Team Reflection: Technology-Driven Insights in High-Stress Training ScenariosProceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work10.1145/3663384.3663385(1-18)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663384.3663385
Bota PZhang TEl Ali AFred Ada Silva HCesar P(2023)Group Synchrony for Emotion Recognition Using Physiological SignalsIEEE Transactions on Affective Computing10.1109/TAFFC.2023.326543314:4(2614-2625)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3265433
Fu DIncio-Serra NMotta-Ochoa RBlain-Moraes S(2021)Interpersonal Physiological Synchrony for Detecting Moments of Connection in Persons With Dementia: A Pilot StudyFrontiers in Psychology10.3389/fpsyg.2021.74971012Online publication date: 13-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.749710

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